Share Paper: Aiming for Quality: Evaluating Credibility of Sources When Curating Open-Access Content for Teaching and Learning

  1. Peggy Semingson, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Wednesday, November 4 3:00-3:30 PM Room 4

Abstract: This roundtable discussion focuses on the various methods that K-12 teachers, college faculty, and other practitioners from across various sectors and in global contexts can use when selecting open educational resources for curricular and teaching purposes. Increasingly, educators and trainers are curators of content and with budget constraints, open access content becomes a consideration for such curated content in teaching. Locating quality “traditional” (e.g., PDF-based, academic articles, journal-based resources, public domain) resources within a wide range of possible sources presents challenges as some documents and resources are less credible than others. An additional issue is the need to teach students, ...