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Encouraging Openness At Your Institution: Trends In Open Education And Open Access, Marilyn S. Billings Jun 2015

Encouraging Openness At Your Institution: Trends In Open Education And Open Access, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Openness is a major trend that is reshaping scholarship, research, teaching and learning throughout the world. This session focuses in on innovative Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives being led by libraries that promote open access, and emerging opportunities for information professionals to play a critical role in supporting the adoption of open access through open education resources.


The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings May 2015

The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This presentation provides background about open education, the OER movement, and givens information about the open education initiative at UMass Amherst as an example of how an institution can incorporate OERs in the curriculum.


The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings Apr 2015

The New Now: Institutional Repositories And Academia, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

This keynote presentation provides a general overview of the changing digital landscape for scholarly communication with an emphasis on the role that institutional repositories play in these changes.


Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: The Umass Amherst Example. Part 1 Of Oer And Libraries: How Can You Help? Webinar, Marilyn S. Billings Apr 2015

Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks: The Umass Amherst Example. Part 1 Of Oer And Libraries: How Can You Help? Webinar, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

As part of National Library Week, you are all cordially invited to "OER and Libraries: How Can You Help?," an Affordable Learning Georgia webinar featuring three leading OER librarians from across the nation. Details below: Marilyn Billings (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), Kate Pitcher (SUNY Geneseo), and Cyril Oberlander (Humboldt State University) are three Open Educational Resources pioneers and leaders. All three of them are librarians! Join them in our Affordable Learning Georgia webinar, discussing their roles in OER projects, and how libraries and librarians can support the OER movement.


Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings Mar 2015

Building Your Fan Base: Promoting Your Repository On And Off Campus, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

Nearing ten years with their repository initiative, Marilyn Billings and her colleagues have made outreach and the formation of partnerships core to their activities. In her presentation, Marilyn will give a retrospective look at some of the major outreach initiatives and partnerships formed over the past decade, including whom they approached and how. She’ll also provide concrete tips and ideas that you can take back to your own campuses.


Uma's Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In, Marilyn S. Billings Jan 2015

Uma's Open Education Initiative: Perspective After 4 Years In, Marilyn S. Billings

Marilyn S. Billings

ASERL webinar: Lib-OER Community: Lessons from the Field. In light of growing interest among librarians to support new modes of publishing and lowering the cost of higher education, ASERL is pleased to host a panel of scholarly communication leaders to discuss their experiences in the field of alternative textbooks, a.k.a. Open Educational Resources (OERs). Panel members include Steven Bell (Temple University), Marilyn Billings (UMass Amherst), William Cross (NC State), and Melanie Kowalski (Emory University)