Openly licensed course materials can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide faculty with content that can be customized for their course. Register for this Spring 2024 Virtual OER Review Workshop, learn more about OER in your field, and find out how to complete a review of OER that pays a $200 or $300 stipend.
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 »
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…
A new article shows that students are voting with their feet to find courses with lower-cost materials. This post shares recommendations for how institutions can proactively use this information in a way that mitigates impact on faculty, especially adjuncts. Read more…
Open Oregon Educational Resources sponsored three presentations at the 2024 Student Success and Retention Conference. Read more…
The current campus store model isn’t working for any stakeholder. How can we proactively get out of our campus store doom loop? Open Oregon Educational Resources and the Orbis Cascade Alliance invite you to a virtual half-day meeting to bring together OER champions, librarians, store managers, business officers, instructors, students, and other relevant stakeholders in Oregon. Read more…
Join a statewide 2-part Equity and Open Education Teaching & Learning Support Cohort! Read more…
Rob Carr, WebAIM Strategic Accessibility Coordinator, and Veronica Vold, Open Education Instructional Designer, will join colleagues from Oregon’s public colleges and universities to showcase their campus accessibility initiatives. Read more…
Rajiv Jhangiani delivered a powerful keynote address at this year’s Open Education Conference. We’ll watch the recorded session synchronously via Zoom with the option to use the chat feature for real-time discussion. Read more…
This hands-on, 90-minute workshop will be led by Laurie Bridges, an OSU librarian and co-founder of the Wikimedia Campaign #EveryBookItsReader. Read more…