Applications are now open for a fifth year of faculty training on Open Educational Resources! Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed course materials that can be used to replace costly textbooks and customize learning experiences. This summer workshop is designed to help faculty learn about OERs and implement them in a UW Tacoma Read More…
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Apply now: 2022 Open Educational Resources Workshop
Applications are now open for a fourth year of faculty training on Open Educational Resources! Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed course materials that can be used to replace costly textbooks and customize learning experiences. This summer workshop is designed to help faculty learn about OER and implement new, openly licensed materials in Read More…
An OER update: Three years of growth
Today marks the end of Open Education Week 2022, a global celebration of the Open Education movement, and a perfect opportunity to share an update on how UW Tacoma is growing and supporting the use of Open Educational Resources on campus. UWT OER advocates have been working hard to grow the use of these resources Read More…
Application Open: 2021 Open Educational Resources Workshop
Program Description, Expectations, and Deliverables Applications are now open for a third year of faculty training on Open Educational Resources! Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, openly licensed course materials that can be used to replace costly textbooks and customize learning experiences. This multi-day, summer workshop is designed to help faculty learn about and implement Read More…
Librarian Research: Project Information Literacy’s study on the news coverage of Covid-19
Project Information Literacy (a nonprofit research institute that I work with) just released a two part report on the way the Covid news story grew and changed in the first 100 days of 2020. For this report, an author team of 5 researchers, myself included, looked at a data set that drew from more Read More…
Library Happenings: A Summer 2020 Overview
This (distanced and strange and smoky) summer has been busy at the UW Tacoma Library. We’ve published regularly and frequently on our blog about all our work, but want to collate all our activities here, in case you missed a post! Most of all: we remain committed to working with students, faculty and staff, during Read More…
Preparing for Summer and Fall Quarter: What Faculty Need to Know Now
Before the Spring Quarter wraps up we wanted to reach out to faculty so you could begin planning. The Library is working in close partnership with UW Tacoma and UW Libraries leadership and community partners to assess and plan for return-to-work and return-to-school following the new UW Safe Start protocols. Our decisions will be guided Read More…
Application Open: Sustaining Momentum for OER
Thanks to a UW Tacoma Strategic Initiative Fund grant, the UW Tacoma Library will be hosting a second year of faculty workshops on Open Educational Resources (OER). These workshops are designed to help faculty learn about and implement these free, openly licensed learning materials in a course of their choice. Selected applicants will be offered Read More…
Library Happenings: April 2020
All campus buildings may be closed but the Library continues to serve the UW Tacoma community. Over the past month and more, Library staff have rapidly adjusted library services to help faculty and students transition to fully remote learning. We’ve done this while learning ourselves how to better use digital tools for telework. I am Read More…
OER Resources While Working From Home
Need to find more robust course materials that are available online? Open Educational Resources, or OER, are materials designed for teaching and learning that are free to students and that also grant permission for people to use, share, and even revise the content. This online guide can help you learn about, find, use, and even Read More…