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Challenges And Barriers To Oer Adoption In Stem Disciplines, Adronisha Frazier
Challenges And Barriers To Oer Adoption In Stem Disciplines, Adronisha Frazier
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines include various programming needs across institutional levels. In high school settings, STEM programs are designed to encourage critical thinking and interest in STEM careers. At postsecondary institutions, STEM disciplines allow students to earn credentials to enter different career sectors. However, some STEM educators are transforming how they perceive their discipline by incorporating innovative practices into their work. Instructional materials (i.e., textbooks, lab manuals, and other ancillary materials) allow educators to diversify their teaching style. Implementing OERs further emboldens educators to incorporate different resources in their classes. However, as innovation spurs positive feedback, challenges …
The Journal Of Open Educational Resources In Higher Education, Volume Two Release
The Journal Of Open Educational Resources In Higher Education, Volume Two Release
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The Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education, (JOERHE) is a diamond open-access journal, that publishes once a year and offers librarians, instructors and other OER experts a platform for their scholarship on OER, open pedagogy, open access and similar topics focused speci cally within the context of higher education. Published annually, the second volume is available as of October 16th here.
Undervalued Resources For Building More Specialized Oer, Justin Kani
Undervalued Resources For Building More Specialized Oer, Justin Kani
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As a librarian, and someone who has been a steadfast advocate of open educational resources (OER) for many years now, I nd myself frequently approached by fellow faculty seeking information on where to locate quality OER materials.
It’S Not Enough To Be Explicit: Why The Hidden Curriculum Should Be Open Access (Part 1), Zoe Speidel
It’S Not Enough To Be Explicit: Why The Hidden Curriculum Should Be Open Access (Part 1), Zoe Speidel
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Over the years, the emails from my students have embodied a broader and broader range of formality. Emails with no subject lines, no salutations, and very little detail are the norm. While sometimes frustrating, I can’t fault my Gen-Z students for writing to me the way they would text a parent: this is the way they’ve grown up communicating. But I would also be doing them a disservice if I didn’t help them understand that this kind of email communication is not typically tolerated in the world outside of our classroom. I do this in the rst week of class …
Licensing Considerations For Your Oer: An Argument For Virality, Jonathan Poritz
Licensing Considerations For Your Oer: An Argument For Virality, Jonathan Poritz
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It was my great pleasure to participate in planning the 10th anniversary celebration of the Open Education Network‘s Open Textbook Library [OTL] in the spring of 2022. Since I tend to think of the OTL as one of the main, canonical OER repositories, it was fun to make graphs with some of its publicly available data, as they are, to me, an almost canonical snapshot of the OER world as it exists now.
Wrapping Up 2022!, Denis Shannon, Sabrina Davis
Wrapping Up 2022!, Denis Shannon, Sabrina Davis
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It’s hard to believe, but 2022 is coming to a close! This was a challenging and rewarding year for all of us at OER & Beyond, and we are excited for what 2023 has in store for us.
Think Oer Globally, Adopt/Adapt/Create Oer Locally: The Unesco Oer Recommendation, Jonathan Poritz
Think Oer Globally, Adopt/Adapt/Create Oer Locally: The Unesco Oer Recommendation, Jonathan Poritz
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In my rst post as the 2022 OER & Beyond Contributing Editor. I’d like to talk about some really amazing work being done on a global stage to bring the open education movement particularly issues around OER – to life across all of the member states of UNESCO.
Welcome To The Scholarly Communication Notebook!, Josh Bolick, Will Cross, Maria Bonn
Welcome To The Scholarly Communication Notebook!, Josh Bolick, Will Cross, Maria Bonn
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While scholarly communication is a well-established sub-discipline within academic libraries and influences so many areas of librarianship (Finlay et al, 2015; Xia and Li, 2015; Brantley et al,2017), it’s not commonly addressed within formal LIS training (Bonn et al, 2020), which may contribute to increased pressure to learn on the job, to burnout, and to elevated experiences of imposter syndrome (Owens, 2021). There are some understandable barriers to increasing LIS instruction on topics like open access, copyright, and fair use, publishing and repositories, research data management, impact measurement, and open education; they’re relatively new, they’re complex, they’re based in disciplinary …
Do Oer Textbooks Have Value To Students Beyond Cost Savings? Addressing The Issue Of How Textbooks Can Be Used To Foster Student Success, Yang Wu
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OER began as textbooks, and is an effort by faculty, librarians and other members of the academic community to increase student access to required readings at a time of fast rising textbook prices. While much of the attention by the OER community has been focused in recent years on reducing student textbook costs through the development of openly licensed works, an issue that has often been ignored is whether students are actually using them. Along with the dramatic increase in textbook costs in the last two decades there has been a phenomenon that is well studied but often overlooked by …
#Oer And #Arcl2019: An Look At Open At The Acrl 2019 Biennial Conference, Sammy Peters, Kristina Clement
#Oer And #Arcl2019: An Look At Open At The Acrl 2019 Biennial Conference, Sammy Peters, Kristina Clement
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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) recently hosted its biennial conference in Cleveland, Ohio from April 11th to the 13th. Your very own editors attended the conference and saw many of the different Open Education and Open Access sessions that were offered. This blog will highlight some of the sessions and online content that can be found about these sessions related to Libraries and OER.
Interrogating And Supplementing Oer Through A Decolonized Lens, Camile Close, Jessica Egan, Emily Thompson
Interrogating And Supplementing Oer Through A Decolonized Lens, Camile Close, Jessica Egan, Emily Thompson
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The philosophy of Open Educational Resources (OER), at its core, seeks to facilitate student access to equitable education through the open sharing of learning materials. Discourse around OER has historically foregrounded how the circulation of open materials reduces costs for students and increases accountability for textbook publishers to make their copyrighted materials more affordable. Recently, more educators and institutions have recognized OER initiatives as being coeval with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, as increasing the affordability of higher education can reduce barriers for marginalized student populations. However, interrogation of the ways in which OER can potentially reproduce or perpetuate …
Recipes For An Oer Program: Running A Test Kitchen In Your Community, Abbey K. Elder
Recipes For An Oer Program: Running A Test Kitchen In Your Community, Abbey K. Elder
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This blog post will not attempt to propose some universal ideal for what OER support should look like on a college campus. After all, no two institutions have the same resources at their disposal. Instead, I will share a few practices you can introduce into your institution’s “OER test kitchen” so you can nd the combination of programs and services that work best for you.
Making Waves – Pre-Print And Open Access For Clinicians During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Karin Purshouse
Making Waves – Pre-Print And Open Access For Clinicians During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Karin Purshouse
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Can you feel that breeze? It’s the cool air coming off a wave of publishing in the COVID19 era.
Taking On A New Role As Oer Coordinator, Elizabeth Batte
Taking On A New Role As Oer Coordinator, Elizabeth Batte
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Hello all, I am the Library Director at Ellender Memorial Library at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. For the past year and a half, I have been the OER Coordinator on my campus working with open access initiatives locally, state-wide, and nationally. Here is what I did to make my rst year as an OER Coordinator successful.
Assessing Oer For Practical Adaptation: Making “Good Enough” Great, Jim Ross-Nazzal
Assessing Oer For Practical Adaptation: Making “Good Enough” Great, Jim Ross-Nazzal
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I teach history for Houston Community College. Among my various breads and butters is the US survey: US history from pre-contact to 1877 and 1877 to the present. We use a textbook, a reader (essays, articles, and primary source documents) and a monograph or two. In 2006 I was faced with using a $100 reader. I was concerned if the student population could be able to afford the book (in addition to the textbook and monographs). Especially knowing (fearing) that the entire book will not be used by my colleagues nor read by students. So, I was given the green …
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Works-For-Hire Serving Good And Not Evil: A Policy Proposal For More Oer, Jonathan Poritz
Works-For-Hire Serving Good And Not Evil: A Policy Proposal For More Oer, Jonathan Poritz
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If you were to ask open education practitioners to list the most important issues confronting the movement at this moment, I doubt that they would say There just aren’t enough OER: many subjects in many disciplines have few or no OER available. I’m guessing folks wouldn’t mention this, simply because it is so obvious, and not a surprise given how new the OER ecosystem is, so that there simply hasn’t been time for all ofthose subjects to be covered. I’d like to propose a policy that educational institutions could adopt, or be compelled to adopt by regulatory agencies or legislatures, …