STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: PAULINE HUFF OER GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT Today we’re proud to feature student, Pauline Huff, as part of Open Education Week. Pauline is in her first year pursuing a Dual Degree program in Information Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, focusing on libraries and archives. Pauline also spends her… read more
Open educational resources
Happy Open Education Week 2025!
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 anonymous surveys, students report using the money they saved from having to buy textbooks on rent, groceries,… 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
Upcoming Event
Open Education Week March 6th-10th, 2023 Join us as we celebrate and amplify the open education practices happening within the UT community during Open Education Week. Events, both in person and virtual, will be aimed at educating faculty and staff about OER, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives. Events OER… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest April 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 15 New York Public Library makes banned books available for free npr.org/2022/04/15/109… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 12 Data scientists turn a new page for open-access books | News – goo.gl/alerts/T12Sc #GoogleAlerts Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 8 washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Apr 7 ‘Unparalleled in intensity’ – 1,500 book bans in US school districts. theguardian.com/us-news/2022/a…… read more
40 Hours to relieve Longhorns from expensive textbooks
Join the University of Texas Libraries in transforming classrooms across the Forty Acres from using expensive textbooks to using no-cost, free-use course materials through Open Educational Resources (OERs)! You can make a difference now during our 40 Hours for the Forty Acres campaign until April 7 at 10pm. Textbooks cost… read more
