This provides a list of criteria to look out for when selecting teaching resources. It is relevant to both open and proprietary resources.

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A good CPD exercise would be to apply the criteria to a new teaching and learning resource.

A checklist to evaluate resources, both open and proprietary.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
A good CPD exercise would be to apply the criteria to a new teaching and learning resource.

The resource offers an excellent, concise overview of the Constructive Alignment theory and should be compulsory reading for all academics. It also contains some examples of how to organize assessment tasks to align with Bloom’s higher order thinking skills.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Ask academic staff to devise a set of assessments that align with different learning objectives e.g. recall, interpret, apply, create and evaluate for a course they are running.

This reading champions authentic assessment. How can we make our assessments 'real' rather than theoretical? It looks at a strategy to design, develop, and mark authentic assessments.

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This would be a good reading for educators involved in the education of professionals that will have a specific task to perform on completion of their studies, such as doctors, nurses, engineers, and educators.

This resource provides a good introduction to both formative and summative assessment.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
The reading provides educators who do not have an education background with an introduction to assessment and how it can be used to measure and/or reinforce course objectives. Ask academic staff to devise a formative assessment that would work in a class they are offering.

Summary of what to consider when aligning assessment with the course objectives.

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A great activity would be to turn the reading into a rubric with criteria to determine if any course has correctly aligned the assessment strategy with the course goals and objectives.

This is a short course that focuses on how to adapt an existing course for an online environment. It addresses key considerations, such as how to choose the most effective means for delivering your content in the online version of your course and practices for developing asynchronous video and textual content.

Ideas for CPD interventions
It was designed as a self-study course and is fully contained. It can be offered as either independent self-study or as the background material for a more extensive CPD workshop on the subject.

This video addresses the topic of creating and/or curating course content and instructional materials to support learning objectives. It highlights the importance of clearly explaining the purpose, source, and alignment of instructional materials. Additionally, the video demonstrates how to communicate course content and instructional materials to your students.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Academics can use the video as a basis to redesign a lesson plan or an entire course module, incorporating the principles that they pick up in the video.

While this book focuses only on open textbooks (and not other types of materials), the information provided is in-depth and well structured. Academics and CPD co-ordinators can use Part 4 to inform their process of creating and editing content. They can refer to the summary page in each section, which consolidates key points, including underlying principles, who is involved, and key tactics.

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The book is far too comprehensive for any one CPD activity. However, the scope is wide, and the chapters could be broken up as specific focus areas about creating textbooks.

This is a free course by the Open University that guides educators through the process of creating and sharing their own open educational resources, with an emphasis on context-appropriate materials.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Use this as a foundational resource for workshops where academics learn to develop and adapt teaching materials. These workshops can include guided learning sessions, hands-on practice, and collaborative discussions to ensure the materials are context-appropriate and effectively integrated into their teaching practices.

This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is organized into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to open education.

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This starter kit can be used as a workshop text or as a reference when working with OER.

This module examines key principles for creating authentic peer teaching and learning opportunities for students. It focuses on authentic learning online and is a great resource for academics who teach in online or blended learning environments. The module is particularly beneficial because it addresses tools to foster greater learner-learner and teacher-learner connection, including how to select communication and collaboration tools.

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This resource is rich with suggestions for learner-centric design. Staff could be encouraged to select a tool or guide and use it to develop a learner-centric activity for an existing course.

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of active learning. It also provides insights on how to incorporate active learning into one’s own teaching and provides a ‘cheat sheet’ with ten steps to getting started.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Use the cheat sheet as a starting point to discuss how it could be adapted and incorporated into one’s own classroom.

This is an existing, free, on demand, open access course hosted on the OERu platform. The course investigates the world of course accessibility and accessibility standards. It is designed as a 20 notional hour course.

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This would be a great resource to use when exposing academics, and/or materials developers, to the issues around accessibility. It is a multimedia rich course with lots of visual cues and examples. It could either be cut up into more manageable chunks to support several CPD interventions or offered as part-time course for independent study over a semester or year, ideally leading to CPD points.

The Flexible Learning for Open Education (FLOE) Inclusive Learning Design Handbook is a free OER designed to assist in creating adaptable and customizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning preferences and individual needs. This handbook on inclusive design is structured according to 'perspectives' (philosophical), 'approaches' (advice for creating inclusive environments) and 'techniques' (advice about the actual tools that can be used to craft inclusive materials.

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This handbook can be used in multiple ways for those wanting to use it in a CPD initiative. It ranges from high level discussions on inclusive principles to advice on how to implement inclusivity in the classroom. This resource will need to be adapted to suit your needs as its scope is broad. Make sure you know what you want to achieve during your CPD initiative and select content appropriately. It is not meant to be a course, however, and will need to be reorganized if used as a workshop.

This practical guide or textbook provides a framework and tips to enhance inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in OER. It looks at how to ensure that what one is developing is sensitive to the IDEA principles. The focus is on OER but the principles are universal.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
The textbook would be a great resource for a CPD initiative on inclusion, diversity, equity and/or accessibility; either as a course text or as background reading. Many lecturers would benefit from the guidance it gives when thinking about decolonization of the course content and how we should treat marginalized students.

While the title is taken from a book, this short article concisely summarizes how to implement backward design. It demonstrates the critical role that assessment must play in course design and that it should be considered during the design phase so that it bolsters course activities and is aligned to course objectives.

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The article has a planning template that demonstrates the central role of assessment. This article can be used for staff CPD as is. It is a great article to share and encourage debate and comparison with how assessment is conducted at an educational institution.

A comprehensive overview of how assessment can provide a course with direction. It champions ‘constructive alignment’ theory and contrasts it to ‘backward design.’

Ideas for CPD Interventions
The whole resource is useful for CPD but the opening section is where an argument is made for assessment being central to the design of the course. This could be used for a debate or discussion.

The article suggests that academics collect and analyse data on the effectiveness of their courses early in the course’s deployment. It offers some valuable advice as a case study of Eberly Centre. It suggests the types of questions that can be asked and provides the user with some logistical questions to consider.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
The resource could be used to encourage faculty to devise their own feedback loops in their course, ideally attempting to emulate what happened at this centre. It also begs the question ‘Does my own institution have a unit that would help me collect early course feedback data?’ and if not, what are my other options?

This article describes at a high level why it is important to have students assess their own learning. By extension, the results can inform your course design or course revisions. It is well argued and shows some of the ways you might collect the data.

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Can be used as independent study material or as background reading for a CPD intervention focusing on alternative assessment approaches.