With the semester winding down there are only two workshops left this year from the Center for Transformative Teaching.
Finding and Implementing OER will be held on Nov. 2.
Encouraging Integrity: Using course design to create an anti-cheating classroom culture will be conducted on Nov. 16.
The OER workshop aims to introduce instructors to leading online resources and ways that open educational resources can be implemented in a variety of classes.
"In certain fields, textbooks can be out of date as soon as they are printed and having digital open educational resources can really help in that situation,” Jeff Kosse, instructional designer at the CTT, said. “Textbooks can also be costly for students or can be forgotten at home, but if students have a digital version with the same information, they can both save money and access the material multiple ways.”
The second workshop will focus on why students cheat in the classroom and ways to mitigate the challenges presented by academic dishonesty.
“An anti-cheating classroom is about more than looking at academic dishonesty; it's about creating a classroom culture where students feel supported enough to engage with the learning instead of worrying about being punished for a ‘wrong’ answer or being judged by instructors for struggling with material,” Julia Remsik, instructional designer for the CTT, said.
Faculty can also look forward to more workshops in the spring with the first being a four-hour, interactive session on course mapping on Jan. 13.
All workshops are open to members of the teaching community at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and participants can attend online or in-person.
To learn more about the workshops and register, visit go.unl.edu/tc-workshops.
More details at: https://teaching.unl.edu/workshops/