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And here's one more big post; this is a follow-up to the one on student-created content from earlier today. I look at the same thing from a different angle here, showing how student-created content is the factor that drives my course design. +Rob Reynolds and +Stacy Zemke , this is the kind of stuff I am pondering as I think about textbook and content ecosystem for our chat on Friday!!! :-) #OpenTeachingOU
The Shift from Teaching Content to ... Teaching Writers
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- This is exactly along the same lines of what I'm thinking about. For PR Pubs, I'm focusing on students as digital storytellers and visual communicators more than anything else. And I think it helps answer +Rob Reynolds question of how do you mix open content with digital literacy techniques. When I first joined CTE a few summers ago, one of my first projects was building the web presence for our US History survey course (http://explorehistory.ou.edu). It was consensus among the History dept faculty that students could learn history anywhere (survey courses are very similarly structured across institutions, lots of public domain content) but what they couldn't do was learn how to be a HISTORIAN anywhere. Therefore, students in these large survey courses are now writing research papers using primary texts that have been curated by faculty and library staff which means class time is focused less on disseminating facts and more on how to be a researcher. The library is taking these papers and making them openly available if the student gives them permission to do so. Both your example and the US History survey example show ways in which you can de-emphasize the content and move the value towards content authorship. Which again is my argument... Our value is in knowledge creation--not knowledge consumption.Apr 6, 2015
- Oh my gosh, how cool: I had no idea that was how the History survey course was set up, +Adam Croom . Have you guys written that up anywhere? There are so many really valuable, transferable skills that make up whatever the Humanities are supposed to be, and research skills would definitely be on the list. I need to go poke around there and learn more about that course. Thanks for the heads up!Apr 6, 2015
- I haven't personally, but I wouldn't be able to speak about it incredibly intelligently because my role was merely the web developer. That said, I would consider watching the introduction videos on there and hear it from the faculty themselves! https://mymedia.ou.edu/media/Course+Overview%2C+Jamie+Hart/0_ri4ncspw There's also a significant amount of material on there that was developed with the Writing Center.Apr 6, 2015
- VERY COOL. I think Jamie Hart is just wonderful, so you have got my attention here. Maybe he and I could write something together... (I am such a huge fan of his!)
So, this is great: you have given me a fun project for this weekend: thank you!!!Apr 6, 2015
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