The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) has created a short video explaining open educational resources for language learning. If you want a succinct way to explain OERs, this is a great one.
Open educational resources
Professional development opportunity and stipend from COERLL
The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) is offering a $500 stipend and professional guidance to graduate student language teachers who are interesting in learning how to create open language learning materials. Students can apply by filling out a project proposal form and submitting it to info@coerll.utexas.edu… read more
COERLL Open Education Week event
The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) is hosting a webinar during Open Education Week (March 27th-31st). The webinar, Going Open in the Language Classroom, features speakers from the Parkway School District and George Mason University. The speakers will discuss the challenges and benefits of working together… read more
Scholarly publishing site live
Poland adopting national open textbook program
Poland has recently adopted two open textbook initiatives. One focuses primarily on textbooks for the first three years of school and the other initiative is for primary and secondary education across the board. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/poland-pioneering-worlds-first-national-open-textbook-program
Scholarly communication brown bag discussions
The Scholarly Communication Group at UT Libraries organizes periodic brown bag discussions on a variety of schol comm topics. These brown bag sessions are open to anyone, although the primary audience is UT Libraries staff. They provide an opportunity to talk through either current or emerging issues for the Libraries and… read more
David Ernst coming to UT Austin
As part of the Year of Open programming, David Ernst, the Executive Director of the University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library, will be on the UT Austin campus Thursday, November 5th. He’ll be giving a talk on Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, and Academic Success at 2:00pm in the Texas Governors’… read more
Open Textbooks save students $1.5 million
The University of Minnesota announced today that the Open Textbook Network has saved students $1.5 million dollars through the adoption of open textbooks. The Open Textbook Library has over 200 open textbooks that anyone can use. For more information about this exciting achievement, see the official announcement: http://discover.umn.edu/news/teaching-education/u-ms-open-textbook-network-reports-student-savings-15-million-open-textbooks
Travel Scholarship Available
Are you interested in creating better access to research and educational materials? Do you want to help make that a reality on the UT Austin campus? If so, please consider applying for a travel scholarship to attend OpenCon 2015. OpenCon is an academic conference for students and early career researchers… read more
