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MavLEARN is the Maverick Learning and Educational Applied Research Nexus. Learn research-based strategies for student engagement, teaching practice, assessment and feedback, learning theories, course design, and more.

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Students experience higher rates of mental illness than the general population. We've created this course to allow learning institutions to share a short resource with their students covering the essentials of mental wellbeing.

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Students experience higher rates of mental illness than the general population. We’ve created this course to allow learning institutions to share a short resource with their students covering the essentials of mental wellbeing.

Content includes:

– Why looking after your mental wellbeing is important when studying – Signs to look out for that might indicate you or others need extra support – Practical tips for supporting others in distress – How you can look after yourself when supporting others.

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Mentoring as a Contemplative Practice: Guidelines for Wholistic Mentoring in Graduate School documents the founding of The Graduate Mentoring Center (The GMC), Indiana University Bloomington. Between academic years 2014-2021, The GMC sought to create a different mentoring model, one based on contemplative practices and relationship building. The guidelines offer practical and step-by-step practices to help students and faculty ask and answer the question “what do you need?” at different stages of the mentoring relationship, and offers opportunities for faculty and staff to “bear witness” to graduate students as they grow personally and professionally.

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ISBN: 979-8-9855126-0-1

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This is a test resource - not intended to be used by NSDL users. Will be deleted as soon as possible

From post-reconstruction to the recent past, this course is based on The American Yawp Textbook chapters 16-30.  (The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook by Stanford University Press is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0) This course incorporates additional readings and videos and includes essays for assessment of student knowledge.There is a Perusall companion course available for the readings in this course. See the Instructor Notes in the "About this Course" Section.

The image shows the twelve virtual practical activities that were created, developed, and implemented by the Moroccan universities for the EXPERES project.

Finding Connection, while Embracing the Continua of Difference: A Dilemma Driven Conflict Analysis

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This open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for a conflict resolution CR 310U Values and Ethics course (required for a PSU bachelor's degree in CR) and adaptable to a conflict resolution CR 513 graduate course (required for PSU master's degree in CR). Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in a ten week, quarter system, though it is adaptable for a semester length course. The chapters are combined with other readings on conflict resolution values and ethics. This open access textbook may be used to supplement resources for other courses that address aspects of conflict resolution values and ethics.

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This open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for a conflict resolution CR 310U Values and Ethics course (required for a PSU bachelor’s degree in CR) and adaptable to a conflict resolution CR 513 graduate course (required for PSU master’s degree in CR). Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in a ten week, quarter system, though it is adaptable for a semester length course. The chapters are combined with other readings on conflict resolution values and ethics. This open access textbook may be used to supplement resources for other courses that address aspects of conflict resolution values and ethics.

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The 'Knowledge Economy' is a system of creating wealth that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge. New knowledge Creation only by educated people with innovative ideas and skills. Hence the objective of Current Higher education is to produce manpower with advanced and innovative knowledge and efficient skills
The process of construction of New Education Policy Frame work is in the pipe line. Provisions and revisions are overhauling in all directions .Various mediums are being used to make it Best

This final report from the 'Next Steps for Teaching and Learning' project was to address the question, in the context of COVID-19, ‘What have we learnt and what does it mean for the future of teaching and learning in Irish higher education?’

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The OER Adoption Journey is an OER designed to be used as part of a support system for OER adoption in a learning space/course. It is a model of what integration of multiple OER can look like within learning materials. We created The OER Adoption Journey to support faculty, librarians, and instructional designers working through OER adoption. We invite readers to use the book as is, in support of their OER adoption journey and/or OER adoption initiatives. We invite readers to break our content into modules and sub-modules for your own LMS to support OER adoption on your campus. Then build upon it to meet the needs of your own faculty as they embark on their own OER adoption journey. Modules/chapters within this book are designed for both new and seasoned OER adopters. Use parts as appropriate, revisit parts as appropriate to suit your learning and adopting needs.

The content of this OER was originally designed as a course in a learning management system (LMS) to support a group of Millersville University faculty who were adopting OER for the first time. The OER Adoption Journey goes beyond finding and selecting OER course materials. It contains reflection questions to assist the adopter in thinking through integrating OER into their course in a way that is learner centered.

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The OER Capability Toolkit aims to provide educators a fundamental understanding in the use and creation of OER. This book provides a higher education Australian perspective and content is broken down into five parts: Defining Open Education and OER; Understanding Open Licensing; Finding and Evaluating OER; Adapting, Creating and Sharing OER; and Open Pedagogy, Principles and Practices. Each part features interactive elements culminating in a final exercise that enables educators to reflect on their own course curriculum to include OER and think about how open pedagogical principles can be introduced in their own teaching practice.

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This website features many of the OER conversion projects completed at John Jay College over the past few years. Class conversions using the Blackboard platform are not represented because of the BB firewall. These are not the actual LibGuides, but content from the LibGuides, using the LibGuide platform for access. The entire website is public.

The left navigation panel displays the academic departments with the overview and objective of the department. Also, navigation to the specific departmental classes, with corresponding OER content, are found at the bottom of the academic department pages. You can also directly navigate to the specific converted class, by clicking on the course title under the department tab. When clicking on a specific class (e.g. Science 110), the link takes you to the course description, learning outcomes of the course and a link to the OER content for the specific course. The OER content features creative commons OER Textbooks, vetted open Internet sites, academic journal articles and library owned streaming video, requiring a login to the John Jay Library. Each academic department features a link to "Discussion and Comments". In addition all pages have navigation arrows to previous pages and next pages. On many of the OER content pages, the class calendar by week is featured with links to the reading assignments. In addition to the specific OER content by class, there is a link at the top of the main page to access generic OER by subject and/or topic.

Whilst this specifically covers the issue of privacy / moral rights / ethical rights with medical OERs, this guide is applicable for all learning and teaching subjects.

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This toolkit has been created to provide University of Regina instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. The toolkit will be updated periodically as relevant information for inclusion is identified.

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Brief overview of what Open Educational Resources are and how to search for and recognise OER. An introduction to the University of Edinburgh Open Education mission is also explored.

Creating Robust Educational Experiences Online

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This resource guide is designed to help course developers plan the design of their online course from a student-centred perspective. It is a development guide, meaning that it will help you lay the foundation you need to find success with designing a course for an online context. It is meant to be used at the planning stage of the process, before you formally start your design. After working through the resource, you should have the foundational outline and plan you need to start developing a course in your learning management system.

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Purpose of this Resource

This resource guide is designed to help course developers plan the design of their online course from a student-centred perspective. It is a development guide, meaning that it will help you lay the foundation you need to find success with designing a course for an online context. It is meant to be used at the planning stage of the process, before you formally start your design. After working through the resource, you should have the foundational outline and plan you need to start developing a course in your learning management system.

Audience of this Resource

Its primary audience is faculty members who are designing and delivering their courses online. In addition, this resource is also available to online learning support staff who may use it to support their own institutional processes, including teaching and learning centre staff, instructional designers, graphic designers, and other professionals that support the development of online learning.

Using this Resource for Course Development

This resource is meant to be flexible for different uses. It can be used independently by a faculty member working on their own classes, or it can be adopted whole or in part to support institutional course development. It also is intended to be used by members of the Mount Saint Vincent University community as they develop online courses for our Teaching and Learning Centre.

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OpenClass is a free learning tool for building mastery-based assignments that follow a research-based format to optimize knowledge retention for learners. I (Laura Neser) have partnered with them to provide a set of 17 non-punitive review assignments around our textbook content that you can easily incorporate into your classes.
**As of spring 2024, an additional set of 17 short quizzes has also been developed through OpenClass and is available at the same URL already linked for this resource.

Instructions: You can clone the review assignments for your own use via the URL link (click the "Clone this class" button at the top of the page to set up a free account with the assignments).

Please feel free to reach out directly with any recommended edits (or possible errors) in the OpenClass assignments (neser@vt.edu). Thank you for reviewing and/or adopting this textbook and I hope this free resource is useful to you!

This guide provides an introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) for students in post-secondary and higher education. It is aimed at helping you, as students, to explore the value of good quality OER, and provides an introduction to how to find and use OER. It intends to serve primarily as a source of reference for students in the Small States of the Commonwealth, but we hope it will be useful to students from any country.

A handout with information for instructors at the University of Kansas regarding OER, additional resources, and suggested readings for implementing OER in the classroom.