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Reflective Practice: eLearning Rubric to Self-Assess Quality of Online Courses
BycwardReflective practice is a valuable approach to editing. Reflecting critically on our work allows us to learn, innovate, and ultimately improve our courses. eCampusAlberta’s eLearning Rubric can be a valuable tool to self-assess the quality of our work: http://www.ecampusalberta.ca/files/rubricBooklet.pdf. Their rubric offers benchmarks for course design, accessibility, presentation, writing, learning activities, assessments, copyright, learner supports, etc. The checklist has many good ideas for course developers and editors: Some we…
Back to the Future
BycwardWelcome to co-creators Dani (darwinsfrog), Cory (corythestumpf), and Mona (mohall2015)! So, we moved back to this, our previous, wordpress site. We have ambitious plans to expand the site’s features in the future, but this will be the home of the OL Editors’ site for the next few weeks or months.
Altruism Increases Productivity?
BycwardThought I’d share this quote from MIST 2611: Management Information Systems: “Is there anything companies can do to make their employees feel less pressed for time? Yes. Force them to help others. A recent study suggests that having employees complete occasional altruistic tasks throughout the day increases their sense of overall productivity.” Leberecht, T. (2012, June)….
Attribution and Copyright Standards
Open Learning course materials frequently incorporate openly licensed, public domain, and permissioned resources. Editors play an important quality assurance role by ensuring attribution information is complete, accurate, and consistently presented. Editors are not responsible for determining copyright permissions but should identify missing or inconsistent attribution information. When Attribution Is Required Attribution should accompany: Creative Commons…
Creating and Maintaining an In-House Style Guide
BycwardThe editing team participated in an Editors Canada webinar in January 2017: “Creating and Maintaining In-House Style Guides” presented by Elizabeth Macfie. It was a great webinar, and I’m sure we will discuss her ideas often in 2017 as we improve and revise our OL style guide. Elizabeth covered her process for building and maintaining a style guide, and she offered…