This chapter explores the surprising requirements and high costs of textbooks in higher education, emphasizing the need for course design to prioritize learning outcomes and affordability. It discusses the shift towards utilizing open educational resources and involving multimedia specialists to create engaging content. The speakers stress the importance of creating dynamic and interactive learning experiences, and highlight the value of authentic welcome videos to connect with students.
Ann Taylor shares ways to offer accessible and affordable learning through open educational resources (OERs) on episode 526 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I have been surprised at how some of us don’t think about the cost of what we’re requiring our students to use.
-Ann Taylor
It’s the instructor that’s making the difference, that’s making the content come alive.
-Ann Taylor
If you’re boring face to face and monotone or you just kinda mumble and separate, you’re probably not gonna come across great recorded either.
-Ann Taylor
Text first, not video first.
-Ann Taylor
We start with the written word, and then we make sure that anywhere it’s gonna make a difference or it’s gonna engage the students, we incorporate multimedia pictures and graphics and interactive tools and video and so forth.
-Ann Taylor