Session 3 Guide
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, you will
- Understand instructional design principles you can apply in developing your OER.
- Be able to ensure that your OER supports culturally responsive teaching.
- Be able to build interactive content and activities using H5P in your OER.
Agenda
We’re deep into planning our OER. Here’s what we’re going to do today to support you as you further shape and refine your thinking about instructional design and ensuring that your OER supports culturally responsive teaching.
- Review different approaches to instructional design and consider their applications.
- Learn about culturally responsive teaching and how it applies to OER.
- Learn how to create H5P activities.
You can download the Session 3 slides [PDF] for an additional overview of the session.
Activities
In-session Discussion
In a breakout room with colleagues, discuss how your students’ motivations will impact the design of your book.
Homework Activities
Complete the following activities before the next session.
- Review the OER Structure guidelines and use the instructional design principles reviewed today to build out the project outline you began in your project summary, paying particular attention to chapter structure.
- The Session 3 checklist below accounts for all elements of your book that you might consider addressing in your project outline.
- Consider your audience when outlining your project. Is your project outline mostly for yourself and your liaison, or will you need it to document and communicate plans for a larger team?
- The platform or format you use for your outline is up to you. Your outline could be a spreadsheet, for example, or it could be chapter stubs in Pressbooks—however you want the communication to occur.
- Complete the Session 3 checklist to let us know how things are going with your project outline. You may not be able to check all the boxes—and that’s fine!
✅ Checking In
Additional Resources
On Instructional Design
- Small Teaching by James M. Lang
This book “presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes that make a big difference, many of which can be put into practice in a single class period.” - Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning by Audrey Watters
This history of educational technology reveals the influence of B. F. Skinner and Behaviorism particularly on the development of testing and textbooks in the United States. - “Textbook Design Rules” from Open Text Publishing Guide
Whether or not you follow these rules to the letter, they provide useful guidelines. - Toward a Critical Instructional Design
This reader from Hybrid Pedagogy features chapters that “challenge current common practices and assumptions in online education, while also challenging our assumptions about who our learners are and what power they should have in learning spaces.”
On H5P
- “H5P” in Publishing with Pressbooks: A Visual Guide by Amanda Grey
- “Create Interactive Content with H5P” in Pressbooks User Guide by Pressbooks
- H5P on WordPress Course by Tech-Tastic, a YouTube playlist of tutorials for each of the H5P activity types
- H5P Accessibility Guide, “designed to help H5P content authors avoid creating accessibility barriers for users”
Book Templates
- Templates for the CUNY Open Publishing Collective
You can import this entire book or selections from it into a book you’ve already created in Pressbooks in order to get templates for commonly used front and back matter pages. Additionally, you can use this book as an outline for the structure of your book. - Creating Ebooks in Pressbooks
Each chapter in this book of templates presents a different way of structuring book chapters.
