OA Week – Open Educational Resources!

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OERschools.com logo by B. Haßler, H. Neo & J. Fraser/ Leicester City Council

It’s International Open Access Week!
Have you thought about using course materials that offer your students free or low cost access?

What are Open Educational Resources?
OERs are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.  -UNESCO

Why use OER?
Using OERs in your course can have a huge impact on students by reducing or eliminating textbook costs and lowering the overall cost of higher education. OERs can also enhance your pedagogy! You can use OER repositories to find new ideas, activities and resources posted by instructors from around the country. Many of these resources are peer reviewed and frequently updated.

How are UWB/CC Faculty using OER?
Faculty on both campuses are integrating OER into their courses. Are you using OER in your class? Let us know!

Want to find out more?
Check out our Open Educational Resources guide for more information about OER resources, Open Textbook repositories, and examples of OER adoption on our campus.

Ask us!

Sincerely, your UWB/CC OER Team :  Alyssa Berger, Todd Conaway, Bryce Figueroa, Nia Lam, Sarah Leadley, Suzan Parker, Anne Tuominen, and Chris Zempel

We are a cross-campus group dedicated to supporting faculty as they explore the world of OER, affordable textbook options, and expanded use of Libraries licensed materials.

It is Open Access Week!

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Open Access Week 2017 logo

Image by Nick Shockey, openaccessweek.org, CC-BY-4.0

 

This week the Library is participating in international Open Access Week! Open Access Week is a celebration of shared knowledge, open scholarship, and barrier-free research and scholarly publishing. Learn more about Open Access Week on their website.

The UW Libraries has assembled an inspiring collection of voices from across the University of Washington describing faculty and staff experiences with open access and with practicing open scholarship and research. This project is called “How I Work Open.” Please stop by the Library to see posters featuring your colleagues’ stories! These stories are also posted on the UW Libraries’ new open access blog, Open @ UW . Keep an eye out for UWB IAS Senior Lecturer Julie Shayne and UWB/CC Library Digital Scholarship + Collections Curator Denise Hattwig.

And as a reminder, here are links to our UWB/CC Library open access resources:

Please contact Sarah Leadley, Library Director, or your subject librarian if you’d like to talk more about open access or how you can “work open!”