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
UT is a QDR Member
The University of Texas has joined the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) as a member. The “QDR curates, stores, preserves, publishes, and enables the download of digital data generated through qualitative and multi-method research in the social sciences” (QDR website). Our membership covers most data curation deposit costs for UT Austin… 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
Data Carpentry Workshop in August
Want to learn how to realize the full potential of your research data? Interested in developing new skills with Python, SQL, and Open Refine? Save the date for the August 2019 Data Carpentry workshop co-hosted by the UT Libraries and Texas Advanced Computing Center. The workshop is open to the… read more
São Paulo Statement on Open Access
Representatives from African Open Science Platform, AmeLICA, cOAlition S, OA2020, and SciELO met on May 1, 2019 during the Global Research Council meeting. The five initiatives came up with a joint statement on open access. This statement builds on previous OA statements and hopefully helps continue recent momentum around open… read more
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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
Check out the first Texas Data Repository Annual Report
Check out our first Texas Data Repository Annual Report, which reports on UT-Austin’s activities in the consortium over the last two years since its launch. https://hdl.handle.net/2152/74154 Some highlights include: • Many upgrades to Dataverse: currently at version 4.9.4 (thanks TDL!!) • 77 dataverses (collections), 430 datasets, and nearly 7000 files.… read more
