[Canadaoer] Fwd: "Write your own textbook: Microlearning through open textbook creation"

Wednesday, June 2nd , 10 am MT Edmonton 45 minutes followed by 15 min Q & A "Write your own textbook: Microlearning through open textbook creation" Yang Wu (Open Resources Librarian, Clemson University, South Carolina) Becky Tugman (Lecturer, Clemson University Public Health Sciences, South Carolina) Yang Wu is a specialized OER Librarian at Clemson University, a land grant research institution in South Carolina. He is the Chair-Elect of the Partnership Among South Carolina’s Academic Libraries (PASCAL), the State’s academic library consortium’s Affordable Learning Committee, which engages in a variety of activities that promote the use of open textbooks and other OER resources to librarians and academic faculty statewide. His current areas of research include strategies instructors can employ to increase student use of OER in their learning, open pedagogy as an approach to increase student research and information literacy skills, as well as developing OER materials on robotics, mechatronics, and advanced manufacturing. Becky Tugman: Teaching interests include school health education, public health athletic training, exercise science and fitness/wellness. Advisor for Eta Sigma Gamma honor society Cost: Free. Scroll down to register. You can share this Registration link: https://forms.gle/UKML7waYb7eyadBy8 This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public. Contact Manisha Khetarpal by email mkhetarpal(a)mccedu.ca or call toll free: 1 866 585 3925