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Through the Open Educational Resources Faculty Fellowship, designed by librarian Cailean Cooney, participants get an in-depth look at the economics of the scholarly landscape. In the move towards open resources, faculty are encouraged to seek out material in their discipline through various OER repositories, and Open Access publications. In the podcast above, Prof.
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How long have you been teaching here at City Tech and in what discipline or department? Birchett: Well, I have been teaching since the full of , and all of my teaching, in fact, has been in the English Department. I teach writing courses and literature courses. Elvis : Great, so, cool. How did you hear about the O. What drew your interest and how did you kind of reach out and get involved?
Birchett: Well, I heard about it in the email and it was advertised through the email, and I guess what drew my attention is, because of my background is instructional design but it was the early stages of some of the digital technology now and so it was fascinating, the idea of updating some of my skills.
And also just being able to approach teaching in different ways. Elvis : Great! So I guess I was curious kind of, to go off that, how your students have changed in terms of their use of technology over the years since you have taught at City Tech? For a while have you seen changes, an increase in their interest in digital or something else?
Birchett: Well, their involvement with the digital delivery of various kinds of information has increased over the years. And many of the ones that I am working with now, they have been interacting with things like phones, and computers, and laptops since they were infants. So, you have to relate to them differently than you would have before.
Yeah, and you have mentioned a project called something, a digital bibliography that students are working on currently. Can you describe a little bit about that project and kind of how you came up with it?
So, one of their projects is to create a digital bibliography so that, I take them into the lab and they create a page in which they break down different type of discourse communities. Underneath those they identify online different groups and their different discourses, you know, their artifacts, their newsletters and all. And once they do that, then my plan is that they upload it into a blog so that all in their group will be able to see all the different groups that relate to all the different issues.
So these are things you could not do if you were limited to print. That always seems to go best, obviously. Thank you for sharing about that. Yeah, I guess it kinda leads us to the question that how did the students receive the O. Did you feel like that they kind of understood the concept of having class on the open lab?
Were they able to access things? You know, what was sort of their intuitive reaction to using that and maybe instead of a textbook or like an anthology and maybe describe what you were using before that. Birchett: I was really surprised at how quickly they were able to adapt to it, because in their daily life they are doing all kinds of different things similarly to that and I was really surprised how there is some diversity in the classroom in terms of the ranges of their exposure to these different kinds of things so the class is not all the same.
So they were able to adapt to it very easily. Elvis : Cool. Elvis : I like that, yes. Taking a different direction of approach. So if you have any thoughts on like the pros and cons of using something like that or if you think open lab kind of makes more sense for where things are going?
Birchett : Well, I do think that the O. So sometimes what can happen is you can link students to resources on Blackboard that they might not be able to put on the Open Lab. I use Blackboard in the process of developing an O.
On the Open Lab, I can develop up to an open stage on Blackboard and test it out, make it work, and then go back and the do programming itself that is necessary to put on the O. Can you speak to that a little bit? Birchett : Well I did an O. Elvis : Yeah, no it is great. Birchett : And it has sort of like a social justice component to it as well because we have different, well not just within our and within CUNY and our closed classes, but across the world people are in different economic situations and this is making knowledge available to them because they would not be able to afford textbooks, you know, and some other kind, you know, because I know that many organizations that were in, you know churches and so forth, donate textbooks [inaudible] textbooks have over the years to various places around the world.
But digital technology in this O. And I think that is marvellous, you know. Elvis : Yeah, that is. Elvis Elvis : So you wanna bring in other things, so can you talk about how it changed the content of your class? Well one of the things that O.
And so many of them have become authors and they had written about their experiences, and so I have, I represent…this was a very short summer course so.. Like we looked at Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie work representing Nigeria and the students looked at, learned about the whole history of Nigeria, the Biafra War, all the different generations of immigrants that have come from the, back in the mid-twentieth century to today and she represents more modern group that represents this era, millennial generation and so they were able to learn all that and so I can select the content, I can pull together the resources much of what was digital from all over from Nigeria.
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