Archives – THATCamp AHA 2016 http://aha2016.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:34:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Open Educational Resources in History: Where to Start and What to Do http://aha2016.thatcamp.org/2016/01/05/open-educational-resources-in-history-where-to-start-and-what-to-do/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 23:02:10 +0000 http://aha2016.thatcamp.org/?p=171

There has been a great deal of discussion in the news lately about the cost of colleges texts and rightly so.  But not all Open Educational Resources are created equal, and most have been aimed at introductory classes or at replacing textbooks.  That can be quite helpful, but that doesn’t always meet the needs of upper-level undergraduate or graduate history classes.

I propose a session in which we talk about existing openly available resources for teaching history, identify the key components in good resources, discuss the possibilities of working with students to create openly available resources of our own, and collaborate on a Google doc to share those ideas.

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