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Open educational resources
Wiki Education
If you are interested in having your students contribute to Wikipedia as part of the activities for your class, you may want to consider working with Wiki Education. Instructors who sign up will have access to support materials to help guide their assignment. If you would like to try running… 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
Open Education Workshop in November
Join us for a discussion on implementing open pedagogical practices in the classroom, enabling student-driven learning opportunities, and using open educational resources in your instruction. We’ll hear from a panel of UT faculty who have adopted open pedagogy in their approach to teaching, get a demo of the open web… read more
OER Community of Practice meet-ups start Friday, Sept. 13th!
If you are looking to connect with fellow UT faculty, graduate students, and staff on issues related to open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy, then please join us starting Friday, Sept. 13th for our first community of practice meet-up. The meet-ups are a space to brainstorm, ask questions, consult… read more
OER Community of Practice
If you are using open educational resources (OER) in your courses or have considered using them, please join us this fall for our OER community of practice meet-ups. These meet-ups are being organized by staff from UT Libraries, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, and Texas Digital… read more
Registration open for OER Workshop in August
The UT Libraries and COERLL are happy to announce an open educational resources (OER) workshop for instructors at UT. If you are interested in learning more about how you can incorporate OERs into your class, this would be a great place to get started. Title: Incorporating OER in Courses Description:… read more
OER Resource for Language Educators
The Center for Open Educational Resources in Language Learning (COERLL) has created a free resource called Introduction to OER for Language Teachers. This resource is designed to help language educators learn more about how to create and share their own open educational resources (OER). OER are educational resources that are… read more
OER Workshop Notes
Several of us at UT Austin organized an OER workshop for faculty on January 10, 2019. That workshop was structured around small group discussions. Those discussions were summarized and then questions and comments that came up during the workshop were addressed via the notes so that others could see conversations… read more
OER Legislation
I’m happy to report that the Senate of College Councils (SCC) passed legislation (S.R. 1808) in support of UT Libraries’ Advocacy for Open Education Resources (OER). With this legislation, the SCC highlights the financial burden caused by high-cost textbooks and encourages the use of OER. OER are free online educational resources… read more
