There has already been a lot of great discussion here and I hope I’m not repeating too much. The most interesting part of this essay for me was what it taught me about the complexity of Wikipedia. […]
I also think the idea of writing for a wider audience is interesting but somewhat frightening and see connections between how students write in our courses and how we (or at least I) write as academics. Academics […]
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The OER I am choosing for this assignment is a Modern World History, a textbook by Dan Allosso and Tom Williford (https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/modernworldhistory/). I envision two major uses for the textbook. […]
Like everyone else, I chose to read through Robin DeRosa’s My Open Textbook blog post and I found it much more relevant to my current teaching practices than I had expected. Though she was teaching a l […]
I like the idea of starting small with a student-designed syllabus and working on just one week or one unit. It seems similar to what we discussed last Wednesday about starting small with OER. I think it is also […]
Hi Bruce! Thanks for the suggestions! I haven’t used hypothesis. I want to, but haven’t gotten around to it just yet. I’m not sure exactly how I’d grade it, which is slightly holding me back. But I have already […]
To do well in history classes, I think students need strong reading skills and should be able to read through both primary and secondary sources, summarizing, identifying key […]
That sounds like a great assignment and a good use of OER, as far as I still understand the limitations of the assignment. As Mengia mentioned, it’s always good when we ask the students to apply […]
Thank you! That’s great to hear! I think I’m the only historian in the seminar, but it seems like there are a lot of history-related OER examples out there to help guide me.
I’m Diana Moore and I’ve been an adjunct in the history department at John Jay since 2012. My research focuses on nineteenth century Europe and the intersections of women’s rights, nationalism, and […]
