Introduction to Education is a preservice course intended to provide foundational concepts and awareness of themes to future K-12 teachers. Using the culturally responsive framework, the course and resources were intentionally redesigned to meet the needs of a diverse population, remove barriers, and promote knowledge acquisition through an OER textbook. Developed through an institutional Pressbook account, the resource includes: text, H5P activities, a podcast, videos, and knowledge checks to promote student engagement through differentiated instruction and assessments. The focus of this session is on student usage, their expressed value of the resources, and how this resource connects to current needs and trends for future educators. Links to text and activities will be provided, as well as findings associated with survey and focus group data.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Identify open education resources such as pressbooks and H5P as tools to promote individual and collective learning.
- Become familiar with the intersection of OER and culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP).
- Consider how connectivity theory can be leveraged as a tool to help students make sense of learning both individually and collectively.
- Apply concepts from OER, CRP and connectivity theory to your context.
