If you’ve enjoyed the very creative OK Go videos, you’ll probably love this new resource they’ve put together in cooperation with the Playful Learning Lab at the University of St. Thomas: The OK Go Sandbox. The sandbox is designed to walk educators through the thought processes behind the OK Go… read more
Open educational resources
"Yes, We're Celebrating Open Education!" Exhibit
In recognition of Open Education week (March 5-9), the Libraries have created a display to highlight the value of open educational resources at a time when the cost of a college education is at a premium. “Yes, We’re Celebrating Open Education!” will be hosted at the Scholars Commons in the… read more
Travel scholarship available
The University of Texas Libraries wants to send you to OpenCon 2017 in Berlin, Germany! If you are a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher with an interest in open access (OA), open educational resources (OER) or open data who wants to help shape the future of research and education at… read more
Short OER video from COERLL
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
