Video Captions

"The biggest tip I can give to people is to have a transcript already produced. Usually, when I do this, I write the transcript before I record my lecture. Then, I make edits to that transcript after I've already recorded and that way you already have it done."

-Dr. Amanda Groff, Associate Lecturer of Anthropology

Resources:

Step-by-step Instructions: Video Captions

Proactive Captioning for Online Courses

Creating Accessible Multimedia

Question Banks

"I heard it from a colleague of mine. She was showing me her test banks and I was like, that's awesome, I'm stealing it. And now, I've applied it to all of my classes and it's really helpful."

-Dr. Sandra Wheeler, Associate Lecturer of Anthropology

Resources:

Create Quiz from Question Banks

How do I create a question bank in a course?

Syllabus Tool

"I post in that tool the top half of my syllabus. So, it's the contact information, technology
requirements, and other key pieces of information that they [students] need to know before they register."

-Dr. Beth Nettles, Adjunct Instructor, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Resources:

Syllabus Tool

Course Preview Feature

Discussion Strategies

"Be open-minded and innovative in your use of discussion prompts. There are two strategies that I've used in my classes that have been really effective with getting the students both engaged and thinking critically."

-Dr. Beatriz Reyes-Foster, Associate Professor, Anthropology

Resources:

What are Discussions?

Use Word Clouds to Enhance Critical Thinking

Encourage Authentic Learning in Classrooms in Online Discussions Through the Use of Photovoice

OER Implementation

If you find a good open access textbook the quality is as good if not better than the commercially-available ones because the people who are writing them are actually very dedicated to doing this."

-Dr. Bruce Wilson, Professor, Political Science

Resources:

Free books. No catch.

Publishing Open Texts at UCF

OER Commons

Oasis

The Mason OER Metafinder (Mom)