Current Happenings in ISLT

Current Happenings in ISLT

Over the last few weeks, a few events have taken place and a few more that are right around the corner that you may be interested in.

Dr. Klein's class using and Press the Chest (a CPR training kit)

Dr. Klein's Advanced Instructional Design and Development class using principles of learning theory, early instructional theory, and communication/media theory to analyze "Press the Chest" (a CPR training kit).

Open Access Publishing Presentation

On Friday, March 2, Florida State Library's scholarly communication librarian, Devin Soper presented in Dr. Dennen's Academic Publishing EME6635 class. A few key points are listed below as well as a link to his presentation.

• Library expenses are increasing and forcing subscriptions to some journals to be discontinued and or reevaluated while the profits of a publisher have been known to recently exceed the profits of Google
• Types of open access publishing: Gold vs. Green 
• If a student wants to publish in an open access journal, check with the FSU library to see if there is a budget set aside for them to help you out
• Quality Open Access Market: https://www.qoam.eu/
• Think Check Submit https://thinkchecksubmit.org/
• FSU's Digital Repository, Diginole: https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/
• URL to Devin's presentation: http://bit.ly/2HYDbIo 

Development Tool Workshops

ISSA has delivered two development tool workshops and another is scheduled to be delivered. 

• On Friday, February 16, Lukas delivered a hands on workshop for Articulate Storyline
• On Friday, March 2, Kari delivered a hands on workshop for Adobe Captivate
• On Friday, March 30, Yao will deliver a hands on workshop for Lectora

 Other Upcoming Events

• March 8, FSU Library will be hosting the Open Education Symposium where you can attend in person, stream the event live at https://youtu.be/uuxua5TM0Jk, and or join in the live chat on Twitter at #FSUOpenEd 
• March 31, ISSA is hosting a BBQ potluck at FSU Rez at noon
• April 13, Michelle is delivering a resume workshop at 3:00 pm
• April 13 - April 17, 2018 AERA's Annual Meeting will be held in NYC where some of the ISLT community will be presenting

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