Most of us are researchers AND teachers. As teachers or instructors we constantly create current and state-of-the-art instructional materials for our students to keep pace with the development within our subjects. There many Websites that aim at supporting teachers of all grades and educational levels by letting them share such materials as slideshows, videos, animations, posters, collections of links, and quizzes.
It usually takes less time to adapt existing materials to own needs than to create those materials from scratch; therefore, it would be useful to have a collection of items (lectures, rubrics, test banks, etc.) at hand from which one can choose the best candidate for adaptation.
We should use a topic for this kind of material, e.g. 'Instructional material' (added on Jan. 18, 2016: the better term 'Open Educational Resources' already exists as a topic; let's take this term instead).
What are your views on this?
Dear Brückner
I agree with you. Such materials and their spread facilitates our teaching mission and makes us more time for scientific research. Thank you Professorز
Regards
Just a word of caution. I'm a musician and that means I understand the value of intellectual property. It seems to me there is a risk that making my resources available invites my employer to replace me with less experienced (and therefore cheaper) "deliverers". I suggest that freely shared teaching resources will soon go the way of freely ripped CDs and freely shared YouTube content: buttoned up and inaccessible.
Caution accepted; indeed, I'm talking about materials that you deliberately intend to share with colleagues (and students, after all). From my side, there is no expectation that instructors should share ALL their materials.
Michael:
I'd like to share this practical paper that was presented this year in the 5-minute "Quick Hits" spot at the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Indiana U.S.A. The paper has passed 100 downloads since I uploaded it in May 2015. It describes how to set up a debate online and the successful feedback from students in developing their critical thinking and communication skills:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274720155_Debating_A_Dynamic_Teaching_Strategy_for_Motivating_Students_and_Teachers
Conference Paper Debating: A Dynamic Teaching Strategy for Motivating Student...
Dear Debra, thanks for sharing this.
What I mean with the original question is to share the materials that RGers like you use for their teaching (slides, quizzes, lecture notes). At first, this can be done using the 'dataset' feature of RG, and maybe, later they jump on the bandwagon and give us a such a publication form as 'teaching materials'.
Dear Michael,
thank you for answering my similar question.
The Video of my 2 lectures have about 48 GBt and normal Rg does not take it.
Therefore I am asking for another Plattform.
It would be great if RG opens one.
Best
Peter
Peter, thanks for your kind response.
I agree that RG could manage some support regarding the topic. In the meantime, you could use services as Google Drive, upload and share the materials publicly and provide links here on RG. In addition, it would be useful to apply appropriate keywords for content and objectives of the materials. For the latter, I proposed 'Open educational resources' but anything will do that leads interested colleagues to the question/post.
Dear Brückner
I agree with you. Such materials and their spread facilitates our teaching mission and makes us more time for scientific research. Thank you Professorز
Regards
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274720155_Debating_A_Dynamic_Teaching_Strategy_for_Motivating_Students_and_Teachers
Conference Paper Debating: A Dynamic Teaching Strategy for Motivating Student...
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