Presentation Type
Presentation
OER Level of Expertise
Beginner
Audience
Faculty, Librarian, instructional designer, Administrator, Staff
Session Abstract
This presentation will focus on recent experiences of a faculty member and librarian in introducing open pedagogies into a second-year, introductory architectural structures course. The goal of this experiment was to improve students’ retention of course content, and to engage them directly in their coursework by exploring, creating, and sharing open content.
Objectives of the Session
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Attendees will learn about issues to consider when introducing Open Educational Resources and Open Pedagogies into a course for the first time.
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The benefits of collaboration between a faculty member and a librarian will be presented and discussed.
Full Description of the Session
This presentation will focus on the authors’ recent experiences in introducing open pedagogies into an existing, second-year, introductory architectural structures course. Appropriate OER in this discipline has proved scarce, or difficult to locate, but that hasn’t stopped one faculty member from exploring and implementing open pedagogical practices in the classroom with his students. Participants will hear how the faculty member with the assistance and collaboration of a librarian introduced students to the basic concepts of open approaches to learning and sharing content through the creation of openly-licensed Google Sites. This unique collaboration provided students with scaffolded instruction on copyright, open licensing, and open authorship to facilitate one of the faculty member’s main goals of improving students’ retention of course content by engaging them directly in their coursework through the location, creation and sharing of open content. Presenters will discuss details such as assessment, student feedback and other practical considerations pertaining to the evolution, future and sustainability of this project for other faculty interested in adopting open pedagogical practices in their own courses, in any field. The authors successes and failures will be shared and small group break out discussions will be encouraged in order to brainstorm alternate approaches to the broader concept of student creation of OER as a pedagogical practice. Participants will also be invited to view the student Google Sites on their own devices during the session, and time will be reserved for Q&A.
Presenter Bios
Robert Dermody is a Professor in the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation. Bob has a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master of Architecture degree with a concentration in Structures from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has worked for both architectural and engineering design firms in Boston, and lectured at several schools of architecture. Currently, he teaches both design studios and technical courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a founding member of the Building Technology Educators Society, and is a registered architect in Massachusetts.
Lindsey Gumb is an Assistant Professor and the Scholarly Communications Librarian at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Before transitioning to academic librarianship six years ago, she was an archivist focusing on photograph preservation and copyright licensing for the National Archives and the American Institute of Physics, respectively. Along with Dragan Gill, she serves as the co-chair of the Rhode Island Open Textbook Initiative Steering Committee and has been leading the charge with OER adoption and creation on her campus for the past three years. Her current research focuses on the intersections of OER, copyright, and academic librarianship.
Location
Room 162
Start Date
22-5-2019 2:50 PM
End Date
22-5-2019 3:15 PM
Faculty and Librarian Collaboration in Introducing Open Pedagogy into an Undergraduate Architecture Course
Room 162
This presentation will focus on the authors’ recent experiences in introducing open pedagogies into an existing, second-year, introductory architectural structures course. Appropriate OER in this discipline has proved scarce, or difficult to locate, but that hasn’t stopped one faculty member from exploring and implementing open pedagogical practices in the classroom with his students. Participants will hear how the faculty member with the assistance and collaboration of a librarian introduced students to the basic concepts of open approaches to learning and sharing content through the creation of openly-licensed Google Sites. This unique collaboration provided students with scaffolded instruction on copyright, open licensing, and open authorship to facilitate one of the faculty member’s main goals of improving students’ retention of course content by engaging them directly in their coursework through the location, creation and sharing of open content. Presenters will discuss details such as assessment, student feedback and other practical considerations pertaining to the evolution, future and sustainability of this project for other faculty interested in adopting open pedagogical practices in their own courses, in any field. The authors successes and failures will be shared and small group break out discussions will be encouraged in order to brainstorm alternate approaches to the broader concept of student creation of OER as a pedagogical practice. Participants will also be invited to view the student Google Sites on their own devices during the session, and time will be reserved for Q&A.