Teaching and learning workshops focus on resources to help students save money on their education - U Calgary

Oopen educational resources (OERs) are getting attention on campuses around the world and here at the University of Calgary. OERs are peer-reviewed academic content that has been made available via an open licence, such as a Creative Commons License, and which are useful for teaching, learning and assessment. “Everything is going digital, I do think this is the future of education,” says Ykje Piera, learning technologies specialist and open educational resources lead at UCalgary. Piera is involved with the university’s OER pilot project and has seen a lot of interest from instructors: “The academic community is buying in. There was no shortage of applications for the pilot project. There is lots of enthusiasm for projects.” https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2018-03-01/teaching-and-learning-workshops-focus-resources-help-students-save-money-their