Thursday, May 9, 2024
Penn State Lehigh Valley to hold Open and Affordable Showcase - Sara Karnish, Penn State
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Creative Commons USA Releases Legislative Guide to Open Educational Resources - Washington University
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
CC OPEN EDUCATION PLATFORM ACTIVITIES: 2023 IN REVIEW - Jennryn Wetzler, et al; Creative Commons
Monday, May 6, 2024
English Medium Education and Gender Equality (EMEGen) Open Educational Resources
Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Nepal.Myanmar, Indonesia and Vietnam.Syria.Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Ethiopia.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Open-source intelligence and online investigations in focus at OSCE training course for law enforcement in Uzbekistan - OSCE
Saturday, May 4, 2024
New Data From Open Syllabus: “OER Adoption Update: 2023”- Gary Price, Library Journal
Friday, May 3, 2024
Transforming Education at UNM: CULLS launches innovative OER Programs with AI integration and financial support
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Elon University guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain and have been released under an open license that permits access, use, repurposing, reuse and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions (Atkins, Brown & Hammond, 2007).
OER are not just textbooks. Examples include case studies, assignments, assessment tools, software, simulations, videos, workshops, lab manuals, test banks.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Open Educational Resources: Find Open Textbooks - UIC
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Open Textbooks - OER Commons
Monday, April 29, 2024
AtlanticOER development grants - Dal Libaries
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Introduction to Accessibility for OER - the Shorthorn
In this virtual workshop, staff members from the UTA Libraries' OER Department will give a brief overview of web content accessibility guidelines and describe how OER texts published with Mavs Open Press are checked for accessibility compliance. This workshop is free and open to everyone. UTA CARES Innovation/Modification/Creation Grant recipients who received their awards in 2022 or later must attend this workshop before their OER goes to pilot. For more information about this event, contact Jessica McClean, Director of OER (oer@uta.edu).
Saturday, April 27, 2024
University of Manitoba Faculty and Instructors: Apply for a $10,000 grant to create an open textbook - University of Manitoba
A new round of UM OER Grants (up to $10,000) is available to help faculty and instructors create digital, open access course materials. Applications are now being accepted for the 2024-25 academic year. Through the Advance Open Ed 2023-24 project, UM Libraries provided financial and practical assistance for the creation of nine open educational resources (OER) publications. This will continue in the 2024-25 academic year, with educational opportunities about open scholarship for the UM community. Funds are available to participate in the upcoming Creative Commons certificate programs and the virtual Open Education Conference in October 2024.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Increasing access for all -- University of Waterloo
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Hyderabad: BRAOU organises OU OER fest - The Hans India
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Panel discusses merits, limitations of open educational resources - Marty Levine, U Times University of Pittsburgh
Open educational resources (OERs) — educational materials licensed to be freely used and adapted, from online textbooks to problem sets and classroom activities — are adaptable to a specific course and can be adopted in sets or sections, but instructors need to examine them closely for current and error-free content, said members of a panel on OERs hosted by the University Senate’s Library Committee on April 4. The panel’s student member, Akshita Pawar (a sophomore and campus relations coordinating intern of the Public Interest Research Group), noted that she and her classmates must sometimes buy a published textbook, but the instructor may use only half of it. OERs are certainly more affordable, Pawar said — an advantage especially for general education classes, which are required but whose instructional materials may not be something students wish to keep.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Kudos to Roadrunners going above and beyond - Glavin Walp, MSU Denver
Monday, April 22, 2024
WMU Libraries publishes two new open textbooks - Sara Volmering, Western Michigan University
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Open Pedagogy - North Carolina State University
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Librarian Shares How Aptitude Test Changed Her Career Path - Syracuse University
Heather Crane G’23 is an open education librarian at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. She graduated from Syracuse’s iSchool in December with a master’s degree in Library and Information Science. Two years ago, Heather Crane decided to take a career aptitude test after feeling worn out working in retail. To her surprise, the test suggested she would make an excellent librarian. “I looked up the job requirements and realized I already had many of the same skills: customer service, instruction, inventory management, etc. All I needed was a master’s degree,” Crane said. “Being a librarian also checked off all my boxes of what I wanted out of a job: I could be good at it, it was meaningful work, it paid well enough and there was enough of a demand.” Crane is now an open education librarian at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. In her role, she advocates for open access through the use of library resources and Open Educational Resources (OER).
https://ischool.syr.edu/librarian-shares-how-aptitude-test-changed-her-career-path/