Tennessee Open Education Planning Template
Overview
The TN Open Education Cycle 4 OER Grant provides opportunities for teams of community college, technical college, and university faculty members to convert courses currently using commercially published textbooks to courses using OER. In addition to increasing access through the affordability that OER provides, faculty have the opportunity to maximize student engagement and success by aligning materials with learning outcomes and customize tools to support their unique pedagogical approaches. Instructors may adapt, adopt, curate, or create OER materials to support the redesign of a course. This may mean selecting, modifying, or creating OER materials to replace and/or supplement existing course materials, assignments, and/or texts. Grantees are invited to remix this course planning template to design and share their OER project plans, course information and syllabus, and reflection.
(See this primer for additional information about how to get started with OER.)
How To Remix This Template
Once logged in, click the remix button on this resource to make your own version of this template. Change the title to describe your project and add text, videos, images, and attachments to the sections below. Delete this section and instructions in other sections before publishing. When you are ready to publish, click next to update the overview, license, and description of your resource, and then click publish.
Project Planning
Our OER Goals & Purpose: Why are you doing this OER Project and what are you hoping to accomplish?
Our Audience: Who are you designing this OER Project for and what are their learning needs and preferences?
Our Team: Who is on your OER Project Team and what are their roles and responsibilities?
Existing Resources: What existing resources can you utilize for your OER Project? You can curate these resources in our Group Folders
New Resources: What new resources will you need for your OER Project?
Supports Needed: What additional supports do you need to complete your OER Project? Do you need to gather more research and data to inform the design of your OER Project?
Our Timeline: What deadlines do you have for your OER Project deliverables? OER Project needs to be piloted by Spring 2025 term and uploaded to the TBR Group on the Tennessee Open Education Hub by January 15, 2025
Course Description
Add your course description here including the course name and number, and learning outcomes.
Attach your syllabus here clicking the Attach Section paperclip image below, then choose the correct file from your computer, name your syllabus, and save.
Reflection
Please reflect and share any observations and insights you noticed as a result of this OER Project, such as student engagement and impact.