Many of us have heard about Open Educational Resources (OER), but what does it really take to get them up and running in a course? Thanks to 17 outstanding UW Tacoma faculty members, we now have a bit more information about what that work looks like — and what faculty need to get it done. Read More…
Tag: faculty development
Open Scholar Cafe
What is Open Scholar Cafe? You may have heard about Unlocking UW Tacoma’s Scholarly Work, the library’s SIF-funded pilot project. We know that folks may have questions about Open Access or making their scholarship more Open, which is why we are offering Open Scholar Cafe: a series of Pop-Up consultations to support faculty in sharing Read More…
Reading Circle: The University as Social Infrastructure
By the end of my research, I’d discovered that the key difference … turned out to be what I call social infrastructure: the physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact. — Erik Klinenberg, Palaces for the People During Autumn 2019, the Library will again be hosting the Emerging Practices Reading Circle, a Read More…
Critical digital pedagogy: A conversation with Sean Michael Morris
What does critical digital pedagogy look like in practice? There’s no one answer, but conversations on the topic lead to some interesting places. Earlier this month, the Emerging Practices Reading Circle hosted An Urgency of Teachers co-author Sean Michael Morris for a conversation about critical digital pedagogy, renegotiating classroom power structures, and taking time to Read More…
Application Open: Building Infrastructure for OER
Thanks to a UW Tacoma Strategic Initiative Fund grant, the UW Tacoma Library will be coordinating two options to help faculty learn about and implement Open Educational Resources (OER) this summer. The application (linked at the bottom of this post) is open now through May 10, 2019. Each of the options will provide participants a Read More…
Join the Conversation: Mindful Tech by David Levy
WHEN: Monday, March 4th, 2019, 12:30-1:30pm WHERE: Tioga Library Building, 307b Please join us for an open and interactive discussion with the author of Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to our Digital Lives, which has been the focus of the Winter 2019 UW Tacoma Emerging Practices Reading Circle. Professor Levy will introduce several practices Read More…
Coming soon to UW Tacoma: Unlocked scholarship and low-cost textbooks
If equitable access to knowledge makes the world a better place (spoiler: it does), life at UW Tacoma is looking up. The Library recently won two out of ten UW Tacoma Strategic Initiative Fund grants, providing funding to help openly share research by UW Tacoma faculty and lower textbook costs for students. Check out the Read More…
Research help desk closed while librarians improve services
The Research Help desk is closed this Friday, January 25, while the UW Tacoma librarians and research specialists are in Seattle for the American Library Association midwinter meeting. This multi-day event attracts librarians, educators, and other information professionals from around the world so that we can teach each other, exchange ideas, and bring the best Read More…
Join the Conversation: Being a Scholar in the Digital Era
The Library, in collaboration with the Office of Research, will be hosting a conversation (via Zoom) with Jessie Daniels and Polly Thistlethwaite, authors of Being a Scholar in the Digital Era (University of Chicago Press). All are invited to attend. When: Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, 12:30-1:30 p.m. Where: Tioga Library Building 307b. This book has been been Read More…
Predatory publishing and vetting scholarly journals
The Open Access movement has the potential to increase public access to research, create more diverse conversations about new ideas, and completely change the scholarly publishing industry — but that doesn’t mean there aren’t challenges to be addressed. Among them is the growth of “predatory publishing,” or the practice of profit-driven or unethical journals preying Read More…