Share an interactive activity to be featured in the OER Activity Sourcebook!

[nsalmon (Naomi Salmon)]

Is there an interactive activity that you’ve seen in an OER textbook or other project that you’re particularly jazzed about? I’m planning to update the OER Activity Sourcebook and would love to feature it.

You can share examples or get more involved here:
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/oersourcebook/chapter/share-an-activity/

The Sourcebook highlights creative activities that are accessible, adaptable, and based on open-source platforms.* Often, we add links and tutorial information to help folks who are new to making OER learn how to create similar activities for their own projects.

I’m also open to suggestions and collaborations other sorts - it’s a good time for a content/organization revamp for the Sourcebook, and I want this project to be useful! Feel free to DM me or comment below if you’d like to talk more.

*On rare occasions, we include examples of OER that incorporate popular tools that aren’t strictly OER or open source, but we try to keep that to a minimum.

[apurva (Apurva Ashok)]

This is a great question! Here are some of the recent ones that I have been turning to:

• Writing for Success: Documentation Tool Example (Brenna Clarke Gray - I like the emphasis on looking at the process of the activity and grading it all, rather than just the final result)
• Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan – 2nd Canadian Edition (Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, and Andy Tan) (I especially like the use of the branching scenario)
• Human Nutrition: 2020 Edition (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa - the number of engaging, dynamic, and visually appealing interactive exercises are excellent)
• Pulling Together: Foundations Guide (Kory Wilson) (while the interactive elements are fairly simple, the creation of an appendix with all the questions means that readers can engage outside of the web/digital version)

[nsalmon (Naomi Salmon)]

Amazing-- thank you, Apurva!! These look fantastic, and I’m looking forward to incorporating them into the Sourcebook! - Naomi