Rachel Moller - Lecture Note Template
Adapting OER to Incorporate UDL (Gavilan College)
Overview
This template supports faculty and staff as they interrogate their OER and iterate the resource. This template is part of a Canvas course titled Adapting OER to Incorporate UDL.
The initial course is offered by ISKME to California Community College faculty and staff and was created with support from the Michelson Foundatin's Spark Grant Program.
Background on the Resource and Collaborators
Prompts are provided below. Please replace the prompts with your own information. Please note: one template will be created per team unless a team has decided that each person is interrogating a separate OER. In that instance, this section could be copied and pasted into each person's template.
Please provide background information on the team members and the resource you have chosen to interrogate and adapt.
- Patrick Yuh M.S. - Biology Faculty
- Erik Medina M.S. - Math Faculty
- Rachel Moller, Ph.D. - Chemistry Faculy
- What resource did your team chose to interrogate?
- What are your team's goals with interrogating and adapting this resource?
- What impact do you envision this will have on students?
- What impact do you envision this will have on other faculty and staff at your institution?
Rachel Moller
- What resource did your team chose to interrogate?
- OER Organic Chemistry Textbook on OpenStax
- What are your team's goals with interrogating and adapting this resource?
- I am planning to make all of my courses zero cost at the begninng of the 2024 acedemic term, so I wanted to investigate the textbook I am planning on using
- What impact do you envision this will have on students?
- College chemistry will be acheivable and obtainable for all students
- What impact do you envision this will have on other faculty and staff at your institution?
- This will allow all students to get closer to their overall goals through a high quality education and at no cost.
Adaptations to support Open Educational Practices
Prompts are provided below. Please replace the prompts with your own information.
Please refer to the Characteristics of OER tool. Based on your interrogation of your resource, please share:
- What are you planning to adapt to increase the features of the open licensing on this resource?
- How long will this take and who will be the main point person working on this?
- How will your team keep track of the changes and future impact on students and faculty?
Rachel Moller:
- What are you planning to adapt to increase the features of the open licensing on this resource?
- I will be focusing on backwards design using this resource and figuring out how I can incoporate baward design using this textbook when I switch over the this textbook. This year I just moved over my general chemistry material, and I would like to develop worksheets that are organic relavent to something like I use in my general chemistry courses (please see attached document). I have a lot of accessibility work to do on the note tempaltes
- How long will this take and who will be the main point person working on this?
- This will take a long time, I am not sure of an exact timeline, but each time I teach organic chemistry, I incorporate and remove activities that help students be more engaged with the material so they can learn the most. I would like to have the foundations (lecture videos and homework) done at the time of their course, however developing material, worksheets, and content is a labor intesive process.
- How will your team keep track of the changes and future impact on students and faculty?
- Every semester I have students give me feedback on what they liked, what did not serve them, and what they would do differently and have me do differently. I take ideas from what they students need so they can learn the material to the best of their ability.
Adaptations to support Accessibility
Prompts are provided below. Please replace the prompts with your own information.
Please refer to the Characteristics of Accessibility tool. Based on your interrogation of your resource, please share:
- What are you planning to adapt to increase the features of Accessibility on this resource?
- How long will this take and who will be the main point person working on this?
- How will your team keep track of the changes and future impact on students and faculty?
Rachel Moller:
- What are you planning to adapt to increase the features of Accessibility on this resource?
- I have so much work to do on accessibilty. The books I use are alreacy accessible, but the corresponding worksheets I develop for the textbooks have a lot of work that needs to be done with accessabilty. Currently, I use an accessibility checker, but I am highly interested in ANDI and all that it has to offer. I had never heard of ANDI before this workshop. Right now, I make sure that I always use my accessibility checker on Canvas before I publish something. It is really hard to describe chemical structures witth a screen reader. My current videos on YouTube are closed captioned correctly, so that is a step in the accessibilty direction!
- How long will this take and who will be the main point person working on this?
- We are in charge of our own accessibilty; however we do have a lot of support from our distant education personelle on campus.
- How will your team keep track of the changes and future impact on students and faculty?
- Using ANDI is a good place to start, and no one in my cohort currently uses it.
Adaptations to support UDL
Prompts are provided below. Please replace the prompts with your own information.
Please refer to the Characteristics of UDL tool. Based on your interrogation of your resource, please share:
- What are you planning to adapt to increase the features of UDL on this resource?
- DId your team identify any opportunities to co-create with students and what might that look like?
- How long will this take and who will be the main point person working on this?
- How will your team keep track of the changes and future impact on students and faculty?
Rachel Moller
- What are you planning to adapt to increase the features of UDL on this resource?
- The "solutions" at the end of the textbook are lacking. Having a detailed answer is important for students to understand what could have gone wrong in their work in they do not have a detailed answer. This is one point that my current students really like about the solutions manual for the current textbook we are using. I also need to plan and discover how I can incorporate backward design from the start of switching to a new textbook. I think that this OER textbook will need some extra material to develop this well for this course.
- DId your team identify any opportunities to co-create with students and what might that look like?
- As mentioned above, I always ask students what worked, what did not, what they would change, how and why, and I really try and incoroprate as much as I can into the next upcoming class.
- How long will this take and who will be the main point person working on this?
- I will be the main person working on this. I will be asking students to help me determine what they liked, didn't, and be flexibel and fluid in the moment of teaching to accomodate the current student needs.
- How will your team keep track of the changes and future impact on students and faculty?
- The best resource in my students. I always check in with them multiple times throughout the semester and that will not change.
Sharing your iteration
Prompts are provided below. Please replace the prompts with your own information.
Please attach or link your iterated resource in this section. To help make your experience visible to others who pursue similar work, please share the following:
- What aspect of this process stretched your thinking about your resource?
- What next steps is your team considering?
Rachel Moller
- What aspect of this process stretched your thinking about your resource?
- I relaized in my responses that truly my best resource are the students. It really is about them and what they need. I found that all of my answers were student centered so having the best resources available to them, at no cost, is going to be hugely beneficial to them. It feels like a really long and overwhelming process, but it is about making small changes that will turn into big changes over time! And really hearing and valuing the student feedback, in the moment, is really hugely beneficial!
- What next steps is your team considering?