Peers @ UNC
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Dr. Lorraine Alexander is a Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Epidemiology. As a Distance Learning Specialist at NC Center for Public Health Preparedness, NCIPH, she is engaged in OER-based courses. She co-teaches Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health, which is available on the Coursera platform. |
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Dr. Ron Bergquist is a Clinical Assistant Professor at School of Information and Library Science. He is now teaching two courses, which are both using OER materials. In his Information Tools and Foundations of Information Science, he is proud of the fact that there is no cost to the students. All their course materials can be accessed via the Internet or via the UNC Library, and they acquire as much knowledge as what they could from hard-copy textbooks. |
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Dr. Robert Capra is an Assistant Professor at School of Information and Library Science. In his course Fundamentals of Programming Information Applications, he made use of an open-source textbook, “How to Think Like a Computer Scientist”. This interactive book enables students to seamlessly read, run, and modify example code, which significantly increased the amount of hands-on engaged learning time. The self-assessment tools also helps students gauge their understanding of the material. The OER resources allowed him to structure his class in ways that would have otherwise been difficult to achieve. |
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Dr. Cliff Missen is an Clinical Associate Professor and Director of WiderNet@UNC at School of Information and Library Science. He uses OERs in all his classes, combined with freely accessible web pages. He teaches Going the Last Mile: Access to Information for Underserved Populations. For this course he needs to provide all of the course materials in a format that can be used by his colleagues co-teaching in Africa. As part of his research project (Widernet) Cliff makes web based content available to communities like sub saharan Africa or prisons that don’t have access to to the internet. |
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Dr. Stefanie Panke is an instructional analyst at School of Government, providing instructional design consultation and guidance for faculty and teaching professionals as well as project management for educational technology initiatives. Prior to her current position, she worked as Director of E-Learning at Ulm University, Germany. In her courses “Instructional Design: E-Learning – Basics, Trends and Perspectives”, “Research Skills: Cyberculture, Computer Mediated Communication & Webnography” and “Instructional Design: Evaluation of Educational Websites”, she integrated OER in the classroom. As an author and reviewer, she contributed to the open access textbook L3T (textbook for teaching and learning with technologies). |
