Develop & Share OER on Canvas Commons

About this Independent Study Bonus Challenge

This Bonus Challenge is offered to those who have completed Modules 1 through 7 of this course and want to take on a Do It Yourself (DIY) independent study opportunity to develop their adult basic education instructional materials as online lessons within the Canvas learning management system (LMS), and to share their instructional materials as open educational resources (OER) on Canvas Commons, an OER repository managed by Canvas.

As this is a independent study opportunity, you will spend time on your own reviewing the Canvas Guides to learn how to use the features of the Canvas LMS and the Canvas Commons OER repository. The Canvas Guides are excellent (and what we used when learning how to use Canvas to design and facilitate this course). In addition, there is a special Discussion Forum for this Bonus Challenge for peer-to-peer sharing and comparing.

Please note: Given the number of students enrolled in this course, our facilitators don't have the capacity to answer Canvas-related development questions or to provide support on the use of Canvas, which is why this opportunity is described as a DIY independent study Bonus Challenge.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this bonus challenge module, you should be able to:

Sign up for a Canvas Free for Teachers account.
Develop an online lesson in Canvas based on the OER you created in OER Commons.
Share your OER to Canvas Commons.

Topics

Key topics covered in this module include:

Canvas Learning Management System (and Free for Teachers account)
Canvas Commons

Context Summary

This Bonus Challenge is offered to those who have completed Modules 1 through 7 of this course and want to take on a DIY independent study opportunity to develop their lessons as an online learning course within the Canvas LMS. Your challenge is to adapt the lesson you developed in Open Author on OER Commons as online learning in Canvas in your own Free for Teachers account where you can share your lesson with others in Canvas Commons.

Relevance to Practice

The primary focus of this MOOC is to offer experience to design a lesson as OER to be used by instructors in an adult basic education classroom. This bonus challenge extends this design opportunity a different instructional context ... as an online lesson that the adult learner will be access via the Internet. This is a fantastic option if you want to expand your instructional design skills by developing online learning within the Canvas LMS, and you will leave our course with a Canvas Free for Teachers account to use with your own learners! How cool is that?!

Bonus Badge: Creating Open Content in Canvas

A bonus "Creating Open Content" badge will be issued to those who successfully design an online lesson within the Canvas learning management system (LMS), and share the instructional materials as OER on Canvas Commons. Note that the course facilitators will verify your successful course completion by reviewing your work before a badge is issued.

Module Design Credit

Jennifer Maddrell, Design & Development
Hilary Melander, Design