#2 OERProject and History Teaching with Prof Bob Bain

Prof Bob Bain joins us, probably one of the biggest names in history teaching. This conversation brought a whole new dimension to what effective history teaching should look like.

Questions we set out to answer:

• Does Bob Bain play the guitar?
• Why are all historians, in essence, teachers?
• The power of that ONE inspirational history teacher/lecturer
• Why in the world would anyone want to study history?
• What is the purpose of situating the present in the context of the past?
• How do we deal with different accounts of the past?
• What is the OERProject all about?
• How is the OERProject different from typical MOOCs?
• How did the OERProject come about?
• What is the difference between Big History, World History or Global History?
• How does scale influence our understanding of the past?
• How do we link all the ways in which historians write history?
• What is the importance of scale switching?
• Does Big History move beyond the scope of history itself?
• "Bain's Hall" as a thinking tool in the history class
• Why are claim testers central to the OERProject?
• How should history content/skills be assessed?
• How can history teachers be more innovative?
• Why should we be more mindful of employing thinking tools in the history classroom?
• Bob's favourite history books
• Bob's motivational words for history teachers

Books mentioned: "The Idea of History" by RG Collingwood and "Historians' Fallacies" by David Hackett Fischer.

Visit the OERProject at www.oeproject.com and find Prof Bob Bain on Twitter @bain_bob.

Please send your comments and suggestions to @WilliamHPalk or @C_duPlessis on Twitter.

Thanks for listening!