Archived webinar: Panel on OER Maintenance
It takes a lot of momentum to get your OER publishing program up and running… but what happens next? This panel explores the challenges of OER maintenance from a variety of perspectives. Read more…
Category Archives: Resources
Introducing Oregon’s Statewide Open Education Instructional Design Community of Practice
This post is about a group that gathers monthly over Zoom to share stories, swap design strategies, and discuss open educational practices. Read more…
Spring 2023 Grant Project Updates
The 2021-23 and 2022-23 OER grant cohorts have saved over 7200 students an estimated $1M since July 2021. The cohort represents 48 different projects to adopt, adapt, and create OER for courses at 27 institutions. Read more…
Institutions Across Oregon Pilot Open Curricula
Over 70 instructors from 15 different institutions are collaborating with Open Oregon Educational Resources to develop and pilot 12 new open textbooks for Human Development & Family Studies, Sociology, and Criminal Justice. Read more…
Meet Our Program Assistant
Open Oregon Educational Resources has a new Program Assistant! Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Your Discomfort Is Valid: Big Feelings and Open Pedagogy
This post summarizes an article by by Liz Pearce, Silvia Lin Hanick, Amy Hofer, Lori Townsend, and Michaela Willi Hooper about the affective dimensions of open pedagogy. It includes a visual model showing how open educators can raise or lower the stakes of an open pedagogy assignment. Read more…