In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
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AFFORDABLE EDUCATION CHAMPION SPOTLIGHT: CARLEY LAW
In celebration of Open Education Week 2026, the Senate of College Councils and UT Libraries partnered to ask students to nominate instructors who have positively impacted their educational experience through their use of free or low-cost materials. We’ll be recognizing a few of our nominees this week as Affordable Education… read more
TSW Highlight: National Poetry Month
Student Spotlight: Marco Pevia
Marco Pevia (he/him) Undergraduate Student (Senior) College of Liberal Arts, Spanish and Linguistics Today we’re proud to feature student, Marco Pevia (he/him), as part of Open Education Week. Marco is a first generation college student and is in his fourth year pursuing degrees in Spanish and Linguistics with a… read more
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jocelly Meiners
Dr. Jocelly Meiners Associate Professor of Instruction Department of Spanish and Portuguese Today we’re spotlighting the open education work of UT faculty member, Dr. Jocelly Meiners! Dr. Meiners is Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A native of San José, Costa Rica, she came to… read more
OER Crash Course
Are you interested in learning more about OER, but don’t know where to start? Check out UTL’s OER Crash Course! This is a self-paced Canvas course, designed to broaden your knowledge about OER, as well as to provide ideas about how you might start implementing these resources into your learning… read more
Library workshops
There are two virtual workshops scheduled for next week that will be relevant to a wide range of scholars. Both sessions are free, but do require registration. Patent Basics – Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, 11 a.m. to noon Registration required This virtual workshop is aimed at a beginner audience. We… read more
Resources for Support and Development of OER at UT Austin
An international celebration of open access (OA) is taking place this week. This is the third post in a series of daily posts about open access. Open educational resources (OER) are a critical feature of the open access content landscape. Per the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), OER… read more
OE Fellows Publish Textbook
Open Education Fellows Mina Ogando-Lavín and Dr. Joshua Frank have published their OER textbook, Business in Hispanic Life and Culture. Their work was part of the 2021-2022 Open Education Fellows program, facilitated by UT Libraries, which supports UT faculty in adopting and creating open educational resources to integrate into their… read more
Happy Open Education Week!
This week, March 1 – 5, we observe Open Education Week, a global celebration of the open education movement. What is open education? The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) defines it as “resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can… read more
