Welcome! Come in!
Welcome! Come in!
This resource is a “Call & Response Starter Kit for Open Education at Trent University”. What does that mean? Good question. Let’s dig in.
The Call & Response Structure
“You know you make me wanna… SHOUT!” That simple back and forth is a lyric from The Isley Brothers’ classic song Shout. The call & response. Invitation & Participation. In music, a call and response is a conversation in sound. One voice puts out a call, and another answers it, building rhythm, meaning, and momentum together. In OER? Oh We Are! we use that same idea: an invitation to try open education, followed by practical ways that you can respond in your own teaching. It’s not about passive reading or listening. It’s about shared action.
We highlight a few key elements of this resource in the accordion below. For dramatic effect, you can expand each element one at a time and even say it loud in call and response style.
The Call
The call to action is to make learning more accessible, more flexible, and more meaningful for you and your students using open educational resources and practices. Each page of this resource offers a small call to action for open education.
The Response
Start small, share what you can, and build openly using this resource and our support to make your teaching your own. Each page of this resource gives space for you to take up these calls to action.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER are teaching and learning materials that are free to use and openly licensed, giving you permission to adapt, remix, and share them to better fit your students and your course. You will find out more about OER and its permissions in the coming pages.
Open Educational Practices (OEP)
OEP are ways of teaching that invite learners to actively create, adapt, and share knowledge (often using open resources) to make learning more collaborative, meaningful, and connected beyond the classroom. You will find out more about OEP and its affordances in the coming pages. And more!
Have a look through the slides below (you can click through yourself) to see a little more about what you’d be getting yourself into by opening up your teaching practice.
Establishing Our Credibility
This project aims to kick Trent University’s Open Educational activities in to high gear, so we would like to acknowledge the great work that has already been done with open education at Trent. Here are a few open education projects to help establish our credibility (all links will open in a new window):
- Exercise and Physical Activity in Indigenous Health by Dr. Rosalin Miles and Mitchell Huguenin (Award Finalist)
- Forensic Toxicology: From Crime Scene to the Virtual Lab by Dr. Sanela Martic
- Career and Workforce Readiness by Careerspace, edited by Justin Carpenter
- Liberated Learners: How to Learn With Style, edited by Terry Greene and Kyle Mackie (Award Winner)
- Understanding Homelessness in Canada: From the Street to the Classroom by Dr. Kristy Buccieri, James Davy, Cyndi Gilmer, and Nicole Whitmore (Award Winner x 2)
- Knowledge Management and Communication: Ontario University Research Collaboration, by Dr. Cathy Bruce et al.
- Leadership for Nurses in Clinical Settings by Kirsten Woodend RN, MSc, PhD; Manon Lemonde RN, PhD; Janet McCabe RN, MEd, PhD; and Catherine Thibeault RN, PhD
- TRauma-Informed Perspective (TRIP) Guidebook by Beth Needham (Award Finalist)
We have also funded OER adoptions through stipends in the past and hope to do more in the future!
AI Use STatement
The authors of this resource used AI tools in call and response fashion in the preparation of this resource. Calls were made to suggest options for deep dive resources, examples, and in identifying gaps. The responses were sifted through, thoroughly judged, and used sparingly. The ideas, arguments, and words are from the human brains of the authors. We also used our humanness to choose the soundtrack. Why would we let the robot have the fun jobs?
This project is made possible with funding and staff time from the Trent Teaching Commons and the Trent Library & Archives.
