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OER Advocacy Plan Worksheet
Abbey Elder
Activity/Lab 2026-09-20 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This worksheet walks open education advocates through the process of defining goals, identifying decision makers, and building a communication strategy to support their advocacy efforts. This work was adapted from the CAUL OER Advocacy Toolkit, which is based on the OER advocacy planning template by SPARC.
Updates Tracking Spreadsheet for OER Adaptation
Abbey Elder
Activity/Lab 2026-09-20 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This simple spreadsheet provides a structure for those who want to align and review OER intended for adaptation or remix projects. In addition to organizing and collating OER by their alignment to modules, the template asks users to keep track of whether alternate formats of their OER are available for ease of adaptation (e.g., DOC format), what edits need to be made, and who will make the [...]
Open Pedagogy Assignment Examples
Quill West
Handout 2026-09-19 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This handout provides a set of example assignments that instructors can use to inform their implementation of open pedagogy in a course. Assignments are broken down by the type of work they require, including edit existing works, revise and remix existing works, add ancillary support, and develop new works.
Course Rhythm Worksheet Template
Abbey Elder
Activity/Lab 2026-09-19 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This template is intended to help instructors review the "rhythm" of their course by reviewing how deadlines and activities span from week to week, with samples of different approaches you can take. The template was adapted from an excellent base provided by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's L&S Instructional Design Collaborative.
Course Map Template
Abbey Elder
Activity/Lab 2026-09-19 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This simple spreadsheet can help instructors collate and review their materials and assessments against their course design and intended learning outcomes (i.e., course mapping). Some sections not typically included in course maps have been added in this template to support those adapting or adopting OER, such as License Information. Two rows have been filled in with examples to help users [...]
Music Theory OER_Sample Search Results
Abbey Elder
Handout 2026-09-19 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This handout provides an example of what an instructor might find when searching for OER for a Music Theory course across several repositories and platforms.
OER Treasure Hunt Worksheet
Abbey Elder
Activity/Lab 2026-09-19 Education Elder, OER Starter Kit
This activity walks through the a simple process for locating and evaluating OER, with a reflection activity at the end to help instructors consider what they've found and what they might do next.
Soil Judging in Iowa field guide
Amber Anderson
Instructor Guide 2026-09-15 Agronomy
Field guide accompanying the open textbook, "Soil Judging in Iowa ."
Species Identification: Dentition of Piranha and Pacu
Irah Dhaseleer
Diagram/Illustration 2026-09-04 Life Sciences, Veterinary Medicine Starling, Topics in Aquatic Animal Health
Piranha’s meat-eating reputation is publicly widespread, but little is known of its closely related herbivore cousin, the Pacu. The appearance of these species' teeth are key in determining the characteristic differences between these otherwise similar fish.
Mutation Breeding for the Improvement of Amaranth
Faizo Kasule, Walter P. Suza
Activity/Lab 2026-05-06 Agriculture Fehr and Suza, Plant Breeding Methods
This Applied Learning Activity (ALA) accompanies chapter 5, Mutation Breeding, in Plant Breeding Methods. Its purpose is to introduce mutation breeding as a tool for crop improvement using Amaranth as a case study, specifically how novel alleles can be created through induced mutagenesis when desired traits are absent or rare in existing germplasm, and how such alleles can be validated and [...]
Recurrent selection for multi-trait improvement in Sesame
Faizo Kasule, Walter P. Suza
Activity/Lab 2026-05-06 Agriculture Fehr and Suza, Plant Breeding Methods
This Applied Learning Activity (ALA) accompanies chapter 9, Recurrent Selection, in Plant Breeding Methods. Its purpose it to work towards designing and evaluating a recurrent selection breeding program for Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.), how interactive selection and controlled recombination can simultaneously improve multiple traits. This ALA aligns with breeding decisions with classical recurrent [...]
Hybridization-Centered Breeding of Climate-Resilient and Nutrient-Dense Finger Millet
Faizo Kasule, Walter P. Suza
Activity/Lab 2026-05-06 Agriculture Fehr and Suza, Plant Breeding Methods
This Applied Learning Activity (ALA) accompanies chapter 4, Techniques for Artificial Hybridization, in Plant Breeding Methods. It explains how hybridization is a central driver of genetic improvement to develop climate-resilient, farmer-preferred finger millet varieties. It examines how breeders overcome constraints on genetic variation, focuses on floral biology, anthesis timing, and [...]
Development of homozygous Okra lines for variety improvement
Faizo Kasule, Walter P. Suza
Activity/Lab 2026-05-06 Agriculture Fehr and Suza, Plant Breeding Methods
This Applied Learning Activity (ALA) accompanies chapter 8, Inbreeding, in Plant Breeding Methods. Its purpose is to help students discuss the principles of inbreeding in Okra and how breeders can generate homozygous uniform lines to generate pure line cultivars and hybrid parent development. Students will evaluate pedigrees and bulk and single-seed descent (SSD) methods, and assess how the [...]
Marker-assisted backcrossing for pigeonpea
Faizo Kasule, Walter P. Suza
Activity/Lab 2026-05-06 Agriculture Fehr and Suza, Plant Breeding Methods
This Applied Learning Activity (ALA) accompanies chapter 7, Backcrossing, in Plant Breeding Methods. Its purpose is to understand how backcrossing combined with molecular markers can be used to efficiently introgress specific major genes into elite pigeonpea cultivars. The activity emphasizes marker assisted backcrossing (MABC) as a strategy to improve disease resistance, flowering time, seed [...]
Genetic Transformation and Gene Editing for Taro Improvement (Colocasia esculenta)
Faizo Kasule, Walter P. Suza
Activity/Lab 2026-05-06 Agriculture Fehr and Suza, Plant Breeding Methods
This Applied Learning Activity (ALA) accompanies chapter 2, Novel Traits from Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, in Plant Breeding Methods. Its purpose is to help learners develop an understanding to critically analyze a genetic transformation experiment by evaluating experimental design choices, interpreting molecular verification methods, and exploring how genome editing technologies can be [...]