Columbia College Chicago has developed Authoring Culture: Foundations of 21st Century Writing, an OER for teaching/learning writing in college and beyond. Authoring Culture presents 12 key concepts in writing and rhetoric that equip students to handle any rhetorical situation skillfully. In addition to providing explanations of each concept in alphabetic text, this OER provides student-made videos and podcasts that explain each concept multimodally. Authoring Culture’s creators conceived the textbook’s multimodal orientation to appeal to Gen Z users accustomed to learning from podcasts and videos. To build student-friendly podcasts and videos, the creative team recruited students to make the podcasts and videos, sometimes as part of their college writing classes. This presentation shares the process, challenges, and benefits of collaborating with students to make a student-centered textbook.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- plan and execute projects that include student collaborators.
- anticipate challenges of collaborating with students on large scale projects.
- articulate how to re-envision curriculum to fit changing student needs.
