Oregon Celebrates Open Education Week, March 6-10, 2023
Join Oregon’s higher education community in the global celebration of Open Education Week! Read more…
Author Archives: Amy Hofer
Updates on the Future for 2023
Peeking around the corner into 2023, the barriers preventing faculty from more widespread adoption of OER are the usual ones: time and money. Beyond these obvious constraints, though, here are four big challenges we’re thinking about right now. Read more…
Archived Webinar: Designing Education for Equity: Moving Beyond Inclusion 101 by Jess Mitchell
How do we manifest equity in our classrooms? Does anyone know how to do this? Is anyone talking about it? Jess Mitchell starts that conversation in this webinar. Read more…
Winter 2023 Virtual OER Review Workshops
Are you an instructor who is concerned about the impact of high textbook costs on your students? Attend the Virtual OER Review Workshop and learn more about OER in your field. After the workshop, you’ll receive a stipend if you write a short review of an OER. Read more…
OER: Now with cats!
Liz Teoli, Research & Instruction Librarian at Umpqua Community College, shares openly licensed comics she created for a 3-credit Library & Internet Research course. Read more…
Archived webinar: Awesome Attributions and Lovely Licensing Statements: How OER Practitioners Can Use Creative Commons Licenses With Style and Substance
A little general knowledge of the legalities will help OER practitioners easily use Creative Commons licenses when and where needed, with confidence and competence. Learn more…
Oregon EMS Lab Manual Grant Recipients Present at EMS World
Two members of an OER grant team presented their research findings on racial and ethnic disparities in the imagery used in emergency medical technician (EMT) textbooks. Read more…
Collecting local data to advocate for Oregon State students
Oregon State University surveyed students and found that 61% of the respondents do not purchase their textbooks because of cost. Read more…
Oregon adaptation of Matrix for OER in Tenure and Promotion
The OER work being done by our faculty needs to be recognized if faculty are going to continue to make the effort to create and adopt OER. Learn about frameworks and resources for include OER in promotion and tenure documents. Read more…
Archived webinar: Copyright for Complete Beginners
Join Kael Moffat, Copyright First Responder, for an explanation of copyright and open licenses. We’ll assume that you have no prior knowledge and start from scratch. Read more…