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Kim Gibson Post 1

• 1 June 2018, 6:45 PM

What does it mean to me? Collaboration for the win!

I work at the University of Alberta as an eLearning Specialist, and right now my biggest interest is how OER can change the way we teach in a classroom. The majority of our courses have two or three multiple choice exams with a paper thrown in there, but what I would love to see is a cross-curricular, interdepartmental project where students collaborate to create something other institutions could learn from and contribute to as well. So, for me, renewable assignments and collaboration are the most compelling reason to get on board the OER train and ride into the future.

Interested in renewable assignments? Well, David Wiley can tell you more: https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2975


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Jenni Hayman Post 2 in reply to 1

• 1 June 2018, 7:27 PM

Super great Kim. I also happen to be working on a series of open designs for post-secondary that incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Good topics for almost all disciplines, highly collaborative and focused on solving global wicked problems in locally contextualized ways. Check out the SDGs here, and see if you don't see them as an education gold mine! Interdisciplinary? They almost define the concept!

https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300