Collaborative Creation of an OER in a Virtual Sociology Classroom: Rosario Rogel-Salazar
Channel: Rosario Rogel-Salazar
Date: 2022-10-25

#OpenEd22: Session ID: 9658

The WeberWeb project [rosariorogel.net/weberweb] is an open educational resource (OER) developed by sociology undergraduate students at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico.) The students created and curated videos, timelines, infographics, online resources, and a bibliography about the classic German sociologists Max & Marianne Weber.

The main goal of the project was to create an OER specific to the Webers, especially Marianne, since we found very few OER in Spanish about them. Another goal was to highlight Marianne Weber's contributions to the theory of Comprehensive Sociology, which were overshadowed by the work of her husband, Max Weber.

This was the first time the students were publicly sharing their classwork, and they learned about licensing their work and the advantages of open education. However, the challenges were that some students did not have access to a computer at home to work on the project and their unfamiliarity with web publishing tools. To overcome these challenges, students worked with a digital humanities librarian in the United States to learn about tools and technologies to create a website for the project. They spent several in-class sessions, as well as sessions outside of class time, learning about GitHub, Markdown, Jekyll, and basic HTML to create a collaborative, static website for the project. To create the content of the website, the students used Timeline JS, Zotero, BibBase, Hypothes.is, Lucidchart, Canva, Wakelet, and Flipgrid.

The WeberWeb project could be of interest to other educators interested in either implementing public-facing classwork or in creating OER as part of a theoretical course.

Slides:
Rogel-Salazar, Rosario (2022): "Collaborative Creation of an OER in a Virtual Sociology Classroom" lighting talk presented at the 2022 Open Education Conference.. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21371250.v1