One of the challenges in our “Open for Learning” challenge bank
I have been one of a team of facilitators for a series of workshops on open education that we’ve run at UBC from December 2015 to May 2016 (we haven’t done the last one yet!). The idea behind having this series is that we might be able to go into more depth into various topics than we could cover in a single workshop on the broad topic of open education. It has worked well for that, though of course the people that come to the later ones are not always the same as those who came to the earlier ones, so we still always have to do some intro work at the beginning. Still, I think this model works pretty well.
One thing I really like about what we’re doing is that we have used the model of the “assignment bank” from #ds106 and the challenge bank from #udgagora to create challenges that participants can do during the workshop. We were able to do this because Alan Levine kindly put some code up on Github to set one of these banks up as a WordPress theme. Now, I didn’t use that code to set up our challenge site (I only wish I could do that), but Lucas Wright of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at UBC did.
Here’s the challenge bank we’ve been using for our workshops–super cool!
We will keep this challenge bank and have people add their answers as we do this series again in the future (and we have one more workshop to go!).
Here is a PDF with the descriptions of our workshop series for 2015-2016: Open for Learning Workshop Final Descriptions
And I wanted to embed our slides, too. Here are the slides for the first three workshops (I’ll add the fourth when it’s done, if I remember).
Workshop 1: Open for Learning: Exploring the Possibilities for your Classroom
This was an introductory, overview workshop covering a number of things in open ed.
Workshop 2: Using and Remixing Open Resources in Your Courses
Workshop 3: Teaching in the Open
