Building OER Research Guides for a Humanities Survey Class: Humanities 1500 at Gordon State College

Presenter Information

Doug Davis, Gordon State CollegeFollow
Masoud Nourizadeh, Gordon State College
Caesar Perkowski, Gordon State College
Beth Pye, Gordon College

Presentation Type

Q+A Panel

Location

Zoom.

Start Date

26-10-2023 2:00 PM

End Date

26-10-2023 2:45 PM

Description

Last spring, Gordon State College’s Humanities faculty presented at All Things Open Week on their experience building an OER humanities survey class funded by an Affordable Learning Georgia grant. Following up on that panel, those same faculty will now discuss how they have worked with Gordon’s library staff to build OER research guides called LibGuides to freely share their humanities survey course material on the Gordon library website. This panel includes three faculty who currently teach the course (Davis, Nourizadeh, and Perkowski) as well as the librarian (Pye) responsible for building Gordon’s Humanities 1500 guides, each of whom will discuss how they designed their OER Humanities survey courses and LibGuides.

Author Bios

Doug Davis earned his Ph.D. in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently a Professor of English at Gordon State College in Barnesville, GA, where he teaches British and American literature, science fiction, Afrofuturism, and creative writing. He is the past editor of Science Fiction Research Association Review, co-editor of Science Fiction 101, a pedagogical collection, and co-author of the American literature OER textbook Writing the Nation.

Beth Pye earned her MLN from Emory University and is currently an Associate Professor of Library Science at Gordon State College in Barnesville, GA. She serves as Reference and Instruction Librarian for Humanities and Nursing, providing instruction and support including the creation of appropriate LibGuides.

Masoud Nourizadeh earned his Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Ohio University. He is currently a Professor of Art at Gordon State College in Barnesville, GA. Dr. Nourizadeh comes from Iran (Persia), studied Persian classical music in Iran, and was a member of the city of Shiraz’s classical symphony. For the past thirty-three years, he has taught courses in humanities, art history, art appreciation, music appreciation, speech, theatre appreciation, acting, dramatic literature, directing, and freshman studies.

Caesar Perkowski earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Gdansk. He is currently a Professor of English at Gordon State College in Barnesville, GA. Dr. Perkowski has taught courses in English Composition, Humanities, World Literature, British Literature, Reading/Writing Learning Support, Chaucer, Genocide in the 20^th Century, Medieval Mystery Plays, The Canterbury Tales, History of the English Language, Instructional Technology, Introduction to Anthropology, Urban Anthropology, World Religions, and Viking Sagas.

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