This week the Library is recognizing and celebrating both Open Education Week and UW Libraries Student Employee Appreciation Week. I’m not sure if these two honorary weeks have occurred in the same week in years past, but for me, the coincidence seems apt. Thanks to these “two weeks in one,” I have an excuse to Read More…
Tag: OER
Five ways to celebrate Open Education Week at UW Tacoma
Happy Open Education Week, friends! Open Education Week (March 2 – 6, 2020) is an annual, global event focused on raising awareness about open education. The open education movement works toward a world where all people can access, share, and contribute to human knowledge regardless of their income, geographic location, or other potential barriers. According Read More…
UW Tacoma perspectives on Open Educational Resources
What are Open Educational Resources (OER), and what might using them mean for us here at UW Tacoma? These are questions I’ve spent a lot of time on in the last year, including during a recent series of interviews with nine stakeholders across campus. This summary of conversations with students, faculty, staff, and administrators provides Read More…
Panel discussion: Open Educational Resources at UW Tacoma
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…
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…
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…