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Boise State News March 17, 2021
Becca Sibrian, World Languages, faculty/staff, Studio portrait by Priscilla Grover
Becca Sibrian, a lecturer of German in the Department of World Languages, presented “Testing in the age of COVID” during the Pacific Northwest Council for Language – Stronger Together conference, held virtually this year March 5-6.
During this presentation, she discussed the transition to remote learning in her German courses in the spring of 2020 and how she transitioned to Project Based Assessments to better serve her students and to better highlight what her students could “do” in the language. The second half of this presentation was a workshop to help other language educators brainstorm about this for their classrooms.
Idaho Open Education Week: March 1-5 February 26, 2021
Idaho Open Education Week is a free virtual event series running March 1–5, 2021.
Open education is a global movement to increase access to open educational resources online (OER). Open educational resources are openly licensed learning materials (textbooks, ancillary materials, technologies, etc.) that reduce barriers to student success and allow instructors greater flexibility to experiment with new educational approaches.
The series will offer updates on related activities around the state, examples of low- and no-cost course material projects, and discussions about how students, faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and others can get involved with OER.
Idaho Open Education Week is presented through Idaho State University in partnership with the Idaho State Board of Education. Boise State OER and Idaho’s other public colleges and universities will participate via IOPEN (Idaho Open Pedegogical Educational