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Putting What You Learned Into Practice:

Finishing your IITE programAgenda:• Review Lesson Plan template• Review Homework• Review your SLOs for using MERLOT• Go to Lab and find materials you could use within a lesson plan for a SLO for one of your papers

Lesson Plans

• The template will be posted in Lucknow University Faculty Innovation Team (LUFIT) MERLOT Voices

• Post your lesson plan in LUFIT within the “Lesson Plan” discussion.

• Everyone needs to review someone else’s lesson plan and provide a comment

• You need submit your final version of your lesson plan by May 10, 2010

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What Do We Capture and Publish?• Your plans and reflections on what and why

you’re learning and doing – Others learning from your thinking

• Lesson plans using online learning materials– Defined student learning outcome within a paper– Learning exercises/activities using open educational

resources– Assessment rubric of student performance

• We will have a quality assurance process (see handout)

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“Homework”

• Prepare a short article that captures important lessons about the need, goals and processes for transforming education that are being developed through this course.– The following slides provide some prompts and

activities that could help you develop your article– Write the article as a Word document– Begin with sharing your article with your

colleagues in the Lucknow Voices - LUFIT (upload the document)

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Review Your Reflections• Why use OER in teaching?• When and how should you use OER?• What are the benefits from using OER for

– Teachers?– Students?

• What are the barriers for using OER for– Teachers?– Students?

• Write an essay that answers these questions

OUTCOME: Co-author an article to be published on the website

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Questions for Your Students• Invite 3-4 students in one of your classes to visit with you

and learn about OER for– 5 minutes explaining OER– 10 minutes showing 1 OER website– 30 minutes discussing

• What are the benefits from using OER for their learning?• When and how should you use OER?• What are the barriers for using OER?

OUTCOME: Co-author an article on the students’ perspectives and reflect on how their perspectives affect your teaching

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Summary• This Professional Development Course

does have requirements and we will be using assessment rubrics

• You are better prepared to creatively and successfully redesign a lesson plan with the use of OER’s and inquiry-based pedagogy into your instruction and improve student success

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Outcomes for Today• In MERLOT Voices:

• Registered as a member. If you don’t have a picture that you can upload, we will arrange support for you to be able to do this

• Join “Innovations in Science Education at Lucknow University”-open Community Conversation

• Join “Lucknow University Faculty Innovation Team” (LUFIT) - closed Community Conversation

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Outcomes for Today• In MERLOT Digital Library

– Register as a member and expand your Member Profile

– Learn different techniques to discover materials• Browse by discipline and material type• Browse by member and personal collections• Search with key terms and resort• Use advanced search

– Find at least 1 learning material in MERLOT that you could incorporate into a lesson plan

– Create a personal collection9

Let’s Go to the Lab and

Have Some Fun

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