Wednesday, October 23rd, 12:30-1:30pm in SAC 1.118
In this presentation, Garin Fons, will discuss the inception and evolution of Open Educational Resources (OER) over the past 10 years and explore where the Open Education movement might be headed in the years to come.
OERs are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use and reuse. To see a local example of an OER, the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) created a Yorùbá Open Access Textbook, called Yorùbá Yé Mi. To see large-scale offerings of OERs, see MIT’s OpenCourseWare website for their 2,150 course materials, which went live in 2002 and reached 125 million visits in 2012.
Garin Fons is the Project Manager for the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL). He helps COERLL coordinate the creation of various openly licensed foreign language teaching and learning materials, including open textbooks, web resources, video, image, and audio archives, and supervises the development of other innovative projects to combine principles of a participatory and collaborative culture with deeper teaching and learning. He received his MSI from the University of Michigan’s School of Information and when not at the University, enjoys making charcuterie and salami.
