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Integrating OER Into Instructional Initiatives

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On April 18, 2023, #GoOpen held a public webinar titled, "Integrating OER into Instructional Initiatives."  The session featured Rebecca Henderson, Curriculum Services Supervisor, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit, PA; Tracy Rains, Virtual Learning Specialist, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, PA; and, Kelly Hammond, OER and Open Pedagogy Adjunct, CUNY School of Professional Studies; and facilitator, Amee Evans Godwin of ISKME and the #GoOpen National Network.  

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Rebecca Henderson, Amee Godwin

How do we respond to generative AI in education? Open educational practices give us a framework for an ongoing process

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With the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the field of higher education rapidly became aware that generative AI can complete or assist in many of the kinds of tasks traditionally used for assessment. This has come as a shock, on the heels of the shock of the pandemic. How should assessment practices change? Should we teach about generative AI or use it pedagogically? If so, how? Here, we propose that a set of open educational practices, inspired by both the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement and digital collaboration practices popularized in the pandemic, can help educators cope and perhaps thrive in an era of rapidly evolving AI. These practices include turning toward online communities that cross institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Social media, listservs, groups, and public annotation can be spaces for educators to share early, rough ideas and practices and reflect on these as we explore emergent responses to AI. These communities can facilitate crowdsourced curation of articles and learning materials. Licensing such resources for reuse and adaptation allows us to build on what others have done and update resources. Collaborating with students allows emergent, student-centered, and student-guided approaches as we learn together about AI and contribute to societal discussions about its future. We suggest approaching all these modes of response to AI as provisional and subject to reflection and revision with respect to core values and educational philosophies. In this way, we can be quicker and more agile even as the technology continues to change. We give examples of these practices from the Spring of 2023 and call for recognition of their value and for material support for them going forward. These open practices can help us collaborate across institutions, countries, and established power dynamics to enable a richer, more justly distributed emerging response to AI.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Anna Mills, Lance Eaton, Maha Bali

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Practical Uses in Education – Simple Book Publishing

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This Open Educational Resource (OER) was produced for educators who wish to find positive and productive ways to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools into their work. This includes: - using AI tools to develop courses, lesson plans, activities, assessments, and rubrics; - leveraging AI tools to enhance existing in-class activities and assignments; - teaching students how to engage with AI effectively, ethically, and responsibly; - utilizing AI tools to efficiently complete administrative tasks. This resource is focused on how AI tools can be used in polytechnic education. However, much of the content will also be relevant to educators in other educational contexts, like university or high school. The term ‘instructional staff’ is used widely in this resource and is meant to include instructors, professors, lecturers, teachers, educational assistants, and tutors.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Troy Heaps

An OER Workshop

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Trine University promotes the awareness, adoption, adaptation, and creation of open educational resources and no-cost resources for students. This work: “An OER Workshop” by Andrea Bearman is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 and is a derivative work of Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians, and GLAM. In order to receive a certificate, you must take the course through Creative Commons. This book means to share an abbreviated version of the information with Trine University specifics.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Andrea Bearman

Art + Activism with Sanaz Mazinani | KQED Art School

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Sanaz Mazinani is an artist with a background in political activism who uses art to inspire dialogue about perceptions of cultural identity. In the latest episode of Art School, she describes her current art practice. Using online media focusing on world news and pop culture as her source material, she creates symmetrical photo collages and videos that abstract familiar images and invite viewers to reconsider visual culture and its meaning and influence on public opinion and social justice. In this episode of Art School, she describes her current art practice and the intentions behind her recent installation at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. In the second video Mazinani expands on the intention of traditional of Islamic ornamentation.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: PBS Learning Media

Postcommodity arts collective

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Video by Art21. The interdisciplinary collective Postcommodity creates site-specific installations and interventions that critically examine our modern-day institutions and systems through the history and perspectives of Indigenous people. Influenced by growing up in the southwestern United States, the artists Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist revisit their 2015 public installation, "Repellent Fence," produced with previous Postcommodity artist, Raven Chacon. A two-mile-long line of enormous balloons across the Arizona-Sonora border, "Repellent Fence" symbolically sutured together cultures and lands that had been unified long before borders were drawn. Shown installing ambitious architectural interventions at the Art Institute of Chicago and LAXART in Los Angeles, Martínez and Twist consider how American cities have been supported by and will continue to be transformed by the migration of Indigenous peoples from Mexico and Central and South America. To examine our cultural institutions and their demographic future, the pair thinks of the coming decades, when the U.S. Census Bureau predicts a non-White majority. “Our job is to allow a new public memory to be born,” says Martínez. “Here’s our lens; take a look at the world through it, and tell us what you think.” Other featured projects include "Do You Remember When?" (2009), produced in collaboration with previous Postcommodity artist Raven Chacon (2009–2018), co-founder Steven Yazzie (2007–2010), and co-founder Nathan Young (2007–2015). Learn more about the artists at: https://art21.org/artist/postcommodity/

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Art21

Zheng Chongbin on "I Look for the Sky"

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The work of Zheng Chongbin, an American artist born in China and based in the Bay Area for more than three decades, has evolved from traditional figurative ink painting to a multidisciplinary practice encompassing abstract painting, installation, time-based media, and public art. His first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast, Zheng Chongbin: I Look for the Sky consists of two site-specific commissions that manipulate light and space, shifting our perspective of the ever-changing world. Created by Asian Art Museum.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Asian Art Museum

An interview with Alfredo Jaar: Gramsci & Pasolini

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Video by Art21. Alfredo Jaar in his installation "Infinite Cell" (2004) in Santiago, Chile, and various works. Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Alfredo Jaar explores the public's desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar's work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations, often taking the form of an extended meditation or elegy.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Art21

Preserving Nam June Paik's Electronic Superhighway

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Television nation. Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound (Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist, 2002.23 © Nam June Paik Estate), a Seeing America video Speakers: Dan Finn, media conservator, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/

Material Type: Lesson

Author: SmartHistory

Xu Bing, Book from the Sky

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Xu Bing, Book from the Sky, c. 1987-91, hand-printed books and ceiling and wall scrolls printed from wood letterpress type; ink on paper, each book, open: 18 1/8 × 20 inches / 46 × 51 cm; each of three ceiling scrolls 38 inches × c. 114 feet 9-7/8 inches / 96.5 × 3500 cm; each wall scroll 9 feet 2-1/4 inches × 39-3/8 inches / 280 × 100 cm (installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014), collection of the artist, © Xu Bing. Speakers: Allison Young and Steven Zucker. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: SmartHistory

Sol LeWitt’s Concepts and Structures

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Students will consider the term "conceptual art" and the role of math (geometry, fractions, permutations) in producing this art. They will first create a conceptual art piece by following a set of Sol LeWitt’s instructions. Then, they will design two conceptual art plans using math concepts—one in two-dimensions, another in three—for a student-partner to follow. Though not under an open license, this resource is available for free online and educational, non-commercial use is permitted. Image: Four-Sided Pyramid by Sol LeWitt | National Gallery of Art

Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan

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Introduction to children's theater

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The resource was originally created by Emily Cameron in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt and Julie Albrecht as part of the ESU2 Integrating the Arts project. It was later revamped by students of contemporary art theory at the University of Edinburgh. The project ran for four years and focused on integrating the arts into the core primary school curriculum through teacher education, practice and mentoring.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Shitong Tian

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