Growth mindset with OER

Perfect.  It's a lovely ideal.  I prefer the broad strokes of the big picture to the small details.  This is fantastic in face to face teaching, but in online class building it's hard.  The details really, really matter or online classes are frustrating for students and instructors.

I have edited/made digital all of the original OER textbook.  388 pages.  It was a lot of work.

Also, I didn't want to have to manually grade every single assignment.  I figured out in Ch 2 that making a PDF of a PP slide was a great way to do practice activities.  I can use the slide in my hybrid sections but in my online I can add them to a page in a module.  Students can practice with them and then I added the answers on pg 2 of the PDF.

Unfortunately I'm going back through Ch 1 and seeing I hadn't made this discovery yet so I'm undoing the work I did.  Yuck.

I'm reminding myself of the growth mindset.  When I began this project I wasn't all that confident in lots of things that I got really good at by Ch 5.  That's OK.  As I tells my students (and my sons), this is what learning looks like.  Why does it have to feel so frustrating?

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