Multilevel Co-authoring of OERs: Collaborating with Students for the Creation of Course Materials
Channel: Northwestern University Libraries
Date: 2020-02-14

In this TEACHxperts series, Professor Emery will speak about the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Departments efforts – supported by an Open Educational Resource Grant funded by the Office of the Provost and the Libraries – to develop and deploy a series of low- or no-cost, open educational resources for use in the MSE department’s core curriculum. The first half of this talk will cover the philosophy and execution of this project, which aims to create and maintain more than 10 open textbooks co-authored by students and MSE faculty (with significant support from the Libraries). The second half of this talk will be a hands-on workshop demonstrating the workflow for co-authoring of a “text” (a recipe book) by interested attendees. Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops and a favorite recipe.

About the Speaker:
Jonathan Emery is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department. His teaching ranges from introductory service courses to graduate-level special topics courses, and he spends much of his time developing experimental and computational exercises and laboratories within the MSE department. Jonathan’s teaching interests including utilizing computational tools and model-building to improve student understanding in dynamic and complex systems, developing streamlined digital tools to support student 3D visualization, and authoring open educational resources. He is a recipient of the 2017-2018 Provost Fellowship for Digital Learning and has won a grant through the Affordable Instructional Resources initiative to pursue tactics for co-authoring open educational resources.