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
Open educational resources
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
OER Highlighted
The Libraries’ main news venue, TexLibris, just published an article about open educational resources (OER) and our Tocker Open Education Librarian, Ashley Morrison. I highly encourage you to check it out to learn more about OER and all the exciting activities happening on the UT Austin campus.
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest March 1-15, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 10 Meet the Texas librarian fighting book bans in schools chron.com/politics/artic… via @chron Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 7 Statement on Ukraine arl.org/news/statement… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 3 My Super Hero Is Black- Celebrates The History Of Marvel’s Black Heroes And Creators – blackenterprise.com/my-super-hero-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Mar 3 Open Access Through Clarity and Transparency:… read more
Senate of College Councils advocates for OER & affordable course materials in the College Tuition Budget Advisory Report
Recently, the Senate of College Councils released the College Tuition Budget Advisory Report (CTBAC). This report summarizes results from the biennial CTBAC survey deployed to all UT Austin students in Fall 2021 to collect feedback from the student body on the University’s tuition and budget process. For the first time,… read more
Nominate UT Instructors as Affordable Education Champions
Have you had an instructor who increased access and equity by selecting free or low cost course materials for class? Nominate them as an Affordable Education Champion to let them know how much their choices meant to you! Affordable Education Champions are instructors who assign free or low cost resources… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest January 16-31, 2022
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 31 Make science inclusive – The Hindu – goo.gl/alerts/QewUy Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 27 Tennessee School Board Bans Holocaust Memoir Maus consequence.net/2022/01/tennes… via @consequence Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 26 Managing metadata, managing hybridity via HangingTogether hangingtogether.org/managing-metad… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 26 Continued Harassment of Library Workers in Illinois- bookriot.com/continued-hara… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo Jan 26 Mississippi city… read more
Open Research Toolkit
Christopher Eaker from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has created a resource called the Open Research Toolkit (ORT). It’s designed with librarians in mind and aims to teach open research concepts and skills. The ORT is published on the Open Science Framework (OSF) and is licensed with CC-BY license. The… read more
Infrastructure & Support for OER Adoption & Development at UT Austin
This blog post is part of our Open Access Week series. The theme of Open Access 2021 is “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” Open educational resources (OER) are a critical feature of the open access content landscape. Per the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC),… read more
