The presenters have created a Pressbooks-based research skills course called Strategies for Conducting Literary Research. This course was awarded an MLA-EBSCO Collaboration Prize for Information Literacy. In this presentation, the creators discuss how they incorporate generative learning strategies such as motivational design and concept mapping to support the scaffolding of skills throughout the course. The presenters explore how the scalable and adaptable nature of OERs will allow students to participate in the development of the course in real time and chart their progress by implementing the active learning techniques discussed here.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Use OER to support the development of iterative processes for student revision.
- Adapt OER toward research in the humanities.
- Build scaffolded assignments in an OER.
- Use motivational design to keep students on track.
- Include students as collaborators in building an OER.
