Communities in Crisis: Student Voices on Climate Change Pressbooks Partnership

Concurrent Session 1

Brief Abstract

Communities in Crisis: Student Voices on Climate Change is an Open Educational Resource developed by curating undergrad student essays and then publishing them using Pressbooks. This session will describe the project in detail including the idea, the partnership between a faculty member, a learning designer, and an undergraduate student, the student assignment, the selection process, and the technologies used to create the resource.

Presenters

Lead Presenter: April Millet, Pennsylvania State Univeristy

April Millet (Learning Designer, John A. Dutton e-Education Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, PSU) She earned both her master’s degree in instructional systems and her bachelor of science in education from Penn State. As a member of the Dutton Institute staff, she works in close partnership with the college’s academic units to design, develop, and manage online courses and programs that use the latest research in education and technology to develop cutting-edge online educational resources that are unparalleled in their quality. April is most interested in ensuring that technology is integrated into courses in a sound pedagogical manner to ensure that students have the best possible learning experience.

Extended Abstract

Communities in Crisis: Student Voices on Climate Change is an edited book developed by curating undergrad student essays created as part of the capstone project in an Open Education Resource course and then published on he web using Pressbooks. The book, published in November 2021, was created through a partnership between a faculty member, a learning designer, and an undergraduate student. All three partners: faculty, learning designer and undergraduate student will present about the project either in-person or via video recording. Details about the project will be shared from how we partnered on the project covering the idea, the partnership between a faculty member, a learning designer, and the undergraduate student including who did what, information about the OER course, the capstone assignment and grading rubric that produced the essays, the selection and approval process, the production of the book, and all the University supported technologies the team used along the way to create, elicit and keep track of permissions, and publish the resource. We will also share the processes we used and lessons we learned along the way.