Promoting Learning Through Collaboration
Jaime Caldwell,
BCcampus,
Oct 21, 2020
This article looks at the adaptation required to support online learning for a first-year physical geography course in British Columbia. The fourteen developers from across the province "identified the need for an open source lab manual, developed a process to create the content, formed a team to refine the materials, assigned an editor to compile the information, and published the first iteration via Pressbooks. And they did it in less than three months." The course was a particular challenge not only because of its "high-touch, hands-on instruction requirements" but also because of the diversity of instructional approaches around the province. So the developers created an adaptable resource that can be used in different ways by different instructors. They also took the opportunity to update the teaching approach; "now students can download real-time data, collect their own data, and look at virtual globes, then demonstrate their learning by explaining a concept or identifying a feature in a landscape." The article doesn't link to the e-book, but this appears to be it.
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