Updates to the Open Oregon Resources Page
The Resources page has some new features that highlight existing ancillary resources that are already in use in Oregon’s community colleges and universities. Read more…
Category Archives: Resources
Introducing the OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors
The Guide helps technical writing instructors find quality, relevant OER, including reviews of commonly used textbooks, and a topic-based guide to help instructors identify specific resources for specialized content areas. Read more…
Open Ed Week in Oregon
Oregon’s higher education community had a great turnout March 4-8, 2019, for the global celebration of Open Education Week! Read more…
ESOL News Oregon
ESOL News Oregon is a source of local news geared for adult English language learners. Each story includes a related image or video, a set of online self-correcting exercises created using H5P technology, a PDF version of the text suitable for printing, and a list of sources. Read more…
New tool: OER FAQ
A team of Oregon librarians has developed an OER FAQ website that is linked from the menu bar of openoregon.org (look up!). Read more…
Revised for 2018: Textbook Affordability Student Toolkit
Download materials that student groups can use to promote textbook affordability on campus. Read more…
Introducing the Pacific Northwest OER Directory
The Pacific Northwest OER Directory is a curated list of resources and toolkits, people, and distribution lists for academic librarians interested in textbook affordability. Read more…
Open Geology Website
OER Champion Shannon Othus-Gault at Chemeketa Community College uses open pedagogy to showcase student work on a mineralogical website.
Out-of-this-world OER Marketing Campaign
Lane Community College has released OER marketing materials designed by Victoria Koldewyn. The files have a CC-BY-NC license so feel free to reuse and adapt with your own school’s logo.
Library resources as course materials
This post explores several strategies that libraries can pursue to encourage the use of library content as course materials. While library materials are not the same thing as open educational resources, they can be an important component in solving the problem of high textbook prices. Read more…