Course Awards
2019
Rushforth is using Essentials of Linguistics by Catherine Anderson which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License as well as Introductory Linguistics by Bruce Hayes. He is supplementing these texts with materials from the Virtual Linguistics Campus (Philipps-Universität Marburg), whose resources are available under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
More from Rushforth:
“My previous experience using OERs for LNG 3813 course was in Spring of 2018 the course was cross-listed with a graduate level course LNG 5003. Because I needed to provide the graduate students a more rigorous curriculum than undergraduates, I required them to complete a series of modules that were created as an OER at Philipps-Universität Marburg. The resources provided the rigor that I hoped for and gave me additional confidence to integrate other open education resources.
I see OER as an important tool in promoting the discipline of linguistics. I am a member of the Linguistics in Higher Education Committee for the Linguistics Society of America. The committee has an interest in promoting an AP linguistics exam. As part of that effort, I will be pitching the idea of offering AP linguistics to schools districts in San Antonio. If our local school districts see that they can implement an university-level course without incurring textbook costs, it increases the chances that the course will be offered. My expectation is that if we get students to UTSA with their introduction to linguistics credit in hand, it will accelerate their path to graduation and we will be able to involve students in linguistic research at an earlier stage of their university studies.”