January: Since we are interviewing Spanish-speaking community members in the Reading community and using those interviews in our OER text, we submitted a proposal to Albright’s IRB but were exempted since the interviews are informational. Nevertheless, writing the IRB proposal helped us better define the interview questions we will ask and write the letter of consent for the participants. Additionally, the NIH training that was necessary to submit the IRB proposal adverted us of the best practice for collecting information from participants. Although it was time-consuming to put together the proposal, the effort was not wasted.
We are now working on the learning outcomes for our OER course that is informed by the liberal arts tradition and content-based learning as students acquire elementary Spanish proficiency.
I am also preparing to give a FaculTea on Thursday, February 8th, “Spanish 101 for the Liberal Arts: The Making of an Open-Source Textbook”.
Faculty Teaching & Learning Awards 