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
Open educational resources
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
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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
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest September 1-15, 2021
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OER 101 Workshop Coming Up
Workshop: OER 101: Supporting Learning with Flexible & Affordable Course Materials Date: Friday, 9/17 Time: 9:30am – 11:00am In this workshop, we will introduce participants to open educational resources (OER). Instructors can leverage the open licenses assigned to OER to offer their students free, immediate access to course materials as well as… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest May 16-31, 2021
Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 28 Over 800 European research institutions and funders urge publishing reform | News | Chemistry World: chemistryworld.com/news/over-800-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 27 Eric Carle, Creator Of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar,’ Has Died npr.org/2021/05/26/970… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 26 Research lobbies lock horns with science publishers over open access sciencebusiness.net/news/research-… Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo May 25… read more
Texas ScholarWorks Twitter Digest May 1-15, 2021
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UT Senate of College Councils Supports Low-Cost Course Materials Markings in Course Schedule
In April 2021, the Senate of College Councils (SCC) passed S.R. 2103: A Resolution in Support of Requiring That Low-Cost Course Status Be Displayed on the University’s Course Schedule. The resolution explains the necessity and value of this functionality and “seeks to have the registrar denote any low-cost course in… read more
