Scholarly Communications Newsletter, #7 Call for Open Education Fellows The UT Libraries (UTL) eagerly invites applications for the Open Education Fellows Program, a stipend-support fellowship which supports faculty who will adopt and create open educational resources (OER). Through this program, we aim to reduce the cost of required course materials… read more
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Education Fellows Application Period Open
The UT Libraries (UTL) eagerly invites applications for the Open Education Fellows Program, a stipend-support fellowship which supports faculty who will adopt and create open educational resources (OER): Through this program, we aim to reduce the cost of required course materials for UT Austin students and empower instructors to adapt… read more
Affordable Education Champion Profile: Dr. Emily Que
Dr. Emily Que Department of Chemistry As the 2023-2024 academic year comes to a close, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to solicit nominations from students across campus to recognize instructors who increased access and equity by selecting free or low cost course materials for their classes.… read more
Affordable Education Champion Profile: Dr. Michael Aubrey
Dr. Michael Aubrey Department of Chemistry As the 2023-2024 academic year comes to a close, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to solicit nominations from students across campus to recognize instructors who increased access and equity by selecting free or low cost course materials for their classes. … read more
Student Spotlight: Marco Pevia
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
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
Happy Open Education Week!
Today marks the start of Open Education Week! Open Educational Resources are openly licensed materials that can be: Retained Reused Revised Remixed Redistributed OER can make a huge difference to our students. In the 2022-2023 academic year alone, students saved over $1.8 million dollars because OER was prioritized over paid… read more
2024 Open Education Fellows
UT Libraries’ is pleased to announce the new cohort of Open Education Fellows: Professor Chikako H. Cooke, Department of Asian Studies Professor Midori Tanaka, Department of Asian Studies Dr. Simon J. Brandl, Department of Marine Science Dr. Jordan Casey, Department of Marine Science Dr. Sarah Jey Whitehead, Department of Spanish… read more
