COVID-19 Response: Free Tools For Successful Teaching And Learning From MERLOT AND Skillscommons

Audience Level: 
All
Session Time Slot(s): 
Institutional Level: 
Higher Ed
Streamed: 
Streamed
Special Session: 
Blended
Community College/TAACCCT
HBCU
Diversity & Inclusion
Abstract: 

Looking for FREE teaching materials and exemplary online teaching practices using Open Educational Resources? Join us for a guided tour in exploring free resources to help teachers and their students prepare for successful online and hybrid learning. Walk away with FREE teaching tools you can put right to work!

 

Extended Abstract: 

Looking for FREE teaching materials and exemplary online and blended teaching practices for teaching during the COVID pandemic and beyond? Need FREE resources to help better prepare your students to learn online? Explore the abundance of free resources designed to help teachers and their students prepare for successful learning. Through interactive conversations and demonstrations, participants will walk away with a new collection of ready-to-use, FREE resources and tools available from SkillsCommons/MERLOT designed to help instructors and students stay safe while supporting improved learner engagement. This face-to-face presentation will be an interactive, live demonstration (internet allowing), and guided tour that will actively elicit audience participation and feedback. An electronic copy of the slide deck and handouts will be provided. The presentation back-up plan includes screenshots of the site from the user’s lens with links embedded in the slide deck for easy later-date access. This is the right time-and-place sharing discussion for CTE and college-level instructors, Deans, Chairs, instructional designers, and others in the academic setting who have a vested interest in student success methodologies and for industry trainers and HR training professionals seeking affordable learning and training solutions.

Conference Session: 
Concurrent Session 7
Conference Track: 
Instructional Technologies and Tools
Session Type: 
Education Session
Intended Audience: 
Administrators
Design Thinkers
Faculty
Instructional Support
Students
Training Professionals
Technologists