OER Under Construction

I started working on the outcome of my dissertation research, an Open Educational Resource. It is a website that will serve as the platform for delivering the curriculum for my after-school program for Latinas, Afro-Latinas, Black girls and their mothers/guardians. While I will use it to design and deliver the program, others may use it as they see fit. They might decide to walk through it on their own or just pick what they want from it to meet their programming needs.

As an Instructional Technologist, I advised faculty to take a year to build out their online courses. So, I am going to take my own advice and give myself a year to build out the OER. [I'm also giving myself a year to work on my Spanish. I'm using the Babbel app to help me with that effort.] After a year, I plan to submit for funding to pay for the after-school program. Even if the initial phase of funding is for research and development, at least I will be able to show them what I have so far in the design of the program.

I want to take a moment to encourage fellow doctoral graduates to do the work of their dissertations. It is one thing to talk about future studies, and it's another level to do the work for future studies. That is all for now.