Location
Virtual
Start Date
27-2-2024 4:00 PM
End Date
27-2-2024 4:50 PM
Description
In this session the presenters will speak about their use of Open Educational Resources combined with Personalized Adaptive Learning in redesigned high-enrollment GenEd courses. Hear about their successes and challenges--plus outcomes--in a non-traditional approach with OER and PAL in the Humanities. The session will also focus on the advantages and benefits of these innovations for students and faculty alike.
Speakers
Anne Prucha is Senior Instructor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at University of Central Florida (UCF), where she teaches Spanish and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She is active in UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning Pegasus iLab, working with colleagues to incorporate Personalized Adaptive Learning (PAL) and OER content into first-, second- and third-year Spanish courses. In 2022, she and her colleagues, including Kacie Tartt, were recognized by UCF's Affordable Instructional Materials (AIM) Initiative with the AIM High Group Impact Award for using OER, increasing affordability and accessibility for students.
Kacie Tartt is Senior Instructor in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures (MLL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where she teaches Spanish and Latin American Studies. Kacie works to taketh goals of accessibility and affordability to the next level in her courses. She also collaborates with UCF's Center for Distributed Learning to further distance learning initiatives within the Spanish division at the university, most recently exploring Adaptive Learning methods and technologies, as well as OER, within her discipline in a third round of the Course Redesign Initiative sponsored the Pegasus Innovation Lab & UCF Board of Trustees.
Accessibility Status
Streaming video captions available; PDF accessibility verified using Adobe Acrobat Pro Accessibility Checker.
Recommended Citation
Prucha, Anne and Tartt, Kacie, "OuER Story: In the Interests of All" (2024). Open Ed Live. 4.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/open-ed-live/2024/tuesday/4
Included in
OuER Story: In the Interests of All
Virtual
In this session the presenters will speak about their use of Open Educational Resources combined with Personalized Adaptive Learning in redesigned high-enrollment GenEd courses. Hear about their successes and challenges--plus outcomes--in a non-traditional approach with OER and PAL in the Humanities. The session will also focus on the advantages and benefits of these innovations for students and faculty alike.