Openstax: FREE your Students from Costly Textbooks

Openstax: FREE your Students from Costly Textbooks

Last semester’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Pilot Project was a huge success. The 10 instructors who took part in the project, combined with instructors who were already using OERs, helped to save students over $137,000 in just one semester. A few of these...
How to Favorably Impress Your Instructor

How to Favorably Impress Your Instructor

At the last CIE 20 Minute Mentor, we watched a video on what to do when students push our buttons. The discussion that followed was, as always, engaging. I shared one of my strategies to (at least potentially) head off students from “pushing my buttons”. I...
All Fired Up About Accessibility!

All Fired Up About Accessibility!

I just spent a week in sunny Las Vegas attending the annual ITC eLearning conference.  The weather was a beautiful 70-75 degrees each day.  I spent most of the days inside learning all I could to help those at our campus. The one topic that I heard in every session...

Enough, But Not Too Much: Discussing Significant Learning Outcomes

Writing an effective and appropriate Significant Learning Outcome is in some ways similar to creating a work of art.  You have to know what to put, where to put it, and when to stop before you put too much on your page.  See the video below for one version of what a...