Marco Pevia (he/him) Undergraduate Student (Senior) College of Liberal Arts, Spanish and Linguistics Today we’re proud to feature student, Marco Pevia (he/him), as part of Open Education Week. Marco is a first generation college student and is in his fourth year pursuing degrees in Spanish and Linguistics with a… read more
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Open Education Fellowship
One of the many ways UT Austin Libraries supports faculty in implementing OER into their coursework is through the Open Education Fellowship. The Open Education Fellowship is a stipend-supported program, in which selected faculty either adopt or create OER to use in place of paid course materials. And the fellows… read more
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jocelly Meiners
Dr. Jocelly Meiners Associate Professor of Instruction Department of Spanish and Portuguese Today we’re spotlighting the open education work of UT faculty member, Dr. Jocelly Meiners! Dr. Meiners is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A native of San José, Costa Rica, she came to… read more
OER Crash Course
Are you interested in learning more about OER, but don’t know where to start? Check out UTL’s OER Crash Course! This is a self-paced Canvas course, designed to broaden your knowledge about OER, as well as to provide ideas about how you might start implementing these resources into your learning… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 16-31, 2020
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo 23h Creative Commons Interview with Dr. Lucie Guibault: What Scientists Should Know About Open Access infojustice.org/archives/42216 Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 Watch Zoe Saldaña & Eva Longoria Read Kids Books in Spanish as Part of the Save With Stories Campaign remezcla.com/film/eva-longo… via @remezcla Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 30 A Revolution in Science Publishing,… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter digest
Starting this month, we will create a digest every 2 weeks of the tweets we have sent out via Texas ScholarWorks and share it here. We try to find any interesting news pertaining to Open Access, archives, and libraries, in general. Remember, you can also follow us on Twitter here:… read more
Pressbooks webinar on Nov. 21st
If you are a faculty member at a Texas Digital Library-affiliated institution, you are invited to attend a webinar on Pressbooks, an OER textbook platform. The webinar will be geared towards showing faculty how to use Pressbooks to create OER course materials. Sign up for the free webinar Date: Thursday,… read more
Copyright & Digital Culture
Our fall scholarly communication brown bag discussions will kick off with a discussion about copyright and how it intersects with and impacts our online activities. Our speaker for this event is Oren Bracha, the William C. Conner Chair in Law, at the University of Texas School of Law. The inspiration… read more
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Happy Early Fair Use Week!
Fair Use Week starts early at UT Austin. Join us this afternoon for a discussion about fair use in the classroom. We’ll frame the discussion around classroom activities, but the principles are applicable to any fair use evaluation. We’ll also touch on other areas of copyright law that are relevant to instructors. Hope… read more
