Thank You, OER Champion
Clackamas Community College uses a “gratitude campaign” to showcase faculty who teach with OER. Read more…
Category Archives: Resources
Archived Webinar: A Showcase of the Strategic Digital Accessibility Training in Oregon
Rob Carr, WebAIM Strategic Accessibility Coordinator, and Veronica Vold, Open Education Instructional Designer, joined colleagues from Oregon’s public colleges and universities to showcase their campus accessibility initiatives. Read more…
Equity & Open Education Connections in Oregon
The Equity & Open Education professional development course was created by library faculty member Jen Klaudinyi at Portland Community College. The course explores how open educational practices and culturally responsive teaching approaches can improve curricular materials and remove barriers to student success. The core of the course is a four-week exploration in small groups to… Read More »
The Countdown Begins: Open Course Materials Approach Launch Date!
We’re developing materials with an equity lens in Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS), Sociology, and Criminal Justice. This post has updates about different aspects of this large-scale project. Read more…
Archived Webinar: Student-Centered Bookstore Models
When librarians and bookstore managers collaborate, students benefit! Read more…
Archived Webinar: The Limit Does Not Exist: Care, Overwork, and Open Education
Open education’s values-driven nature and justice-oriented goals make it both an appealing field and an area ripe for labor exploitation. How do we individually and collectively resist calls for overwork? Read more…
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…
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…