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Appalachian College Association
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Open Appalachia: Open & Affordable Resources Initiative

Unlock new possibilities for your courses by exploring and adopting open and affordable resources that enhance student learning without the financial burden. This hands-on workshop series provides practical tools, time, and support for discovering, adapting, and sharing high-quality materials tailored to your needs. Join us to empower your teaching and make meaningful progress in each session.

Thursday, September 19 from 1:30-3pm EST

Utilize backward design to locate open and affordable resources that can be adopted into your course. Create new or use your existing macro and micro learning objectives and formative and summative assessment, then use them to locate open and affordable instructional material in OAR repositories.  

 


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Thursday, October 3 from 1:30-3pm EST

Spend time exploring your library’s catalog to find online versions of the instructional materials you already use, or find alternative textbooks, articles, videos, etc. that could be adopted into your courses. You will also have the opportunity to contact your library to inquire about the available user licenses and to ensure that the materials you want to use are owned in perpetuity.  

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Thursday, October 17 from 1:30-3pm EST

Deep dive and take your time in this guided exploration of multiple open and affordable resource repositories. Find instructional materials to adopt in your courses.  

 

 

 

 

 

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Thursday, October 24 from 1:30-3pm EST

Explore multiple open and affordable repositories for supplemental materials to adopt in your courses including syllabi, instructor guides, test banks, slide presentations, videos, learning activities, and more.  

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Thursday, November 7 from 1:30-3pm EST

In this guided session, take what you find in open and affordable resource repositories and adapt it for your courses, including adding original content to the materials you find.  

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Thursday, November 14 from 1:30-3pm EST

This session will guide you in finding instructional materials and applying Creative Commons licenses to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the materials.  

 

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Thursday, December 5 from 1:30-3pm EST

This session will guide you through taking a material you have created for one of your courses, applying a Creative Commons license to it, and make steps to share the material widely.   

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