This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of how to change the visibility settings to make your Canvas course available to people inside and outside of the Western system. This includes an overview of what people outside the system...
Innovative Teaching Showcase 2018: Open Educational Practices
The theme of the 2018-19 Innovative Teaching Showcase was "Open Educational Practices." Explore this resource for great ideas for utilizing OER in the practice of teaching. See also: Teaching Handbook: OER Toolkit "By replacing a static textbook — or other stable...
Open Educational Resources at Western
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, digital teaching resources including textbooks, journal articles, podcasts, video, and...
Open Textbooks
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. In this new digital world, something that might be worth considering is using an open, digital textbook. One of the benefits to...
Syllabus Co-Creation: Inviting Students to Collaborate About What they are Learning
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. If you are a professor who is looking to radically change your pedagogy and teaching this quarter, this post might be for you....
Teaching Handbook: Open Educational Practices Toolkit
Explore this collection of ideas for using open educational resources in the practice of teaching, activities, assignments, as well as materials. Learn more about Open Educational Practices: WWU Teaching Handbook: Open Educational Practices Toolkit See also:...
Virtual Lab Simulations
Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Not all labs can be in person this quarter, but luckily there are so many simulations for all sorts of labs that can be done at...
Western Libraries: CEDAR
Western CEDAR is Western Washington University’s institutional repository of scholarship and creative works. Mission CEDAR advances the university’s commitment to enriching academic inquiry and strengthening communities by sharing the expertise and creativity of its...
Western Libraries: Faculty Resources
WWU's Western Libraries has an abundance of key resources to support faculty. Consider exploring the following: Need course support? Contact your Subject Team and they will help you find an answer to your question. Information & Services for Faculty &...