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Librarians as OER Advocates and Leaders
(ACRL, 2019-04)
SPARC, an international advocacy organization, launched a pilot Open Education Leadership Program in 2017 to develop a cohort of academic librarians well-versed in core open education topics, while also providing fellows ...
Straw Men vs. Good Points: Understanding the Arguments for Inclusive Access Models
(The 15th Annual Open Education Conference, 2018-10-12)
As the instructional content industry shifts towards rentals and subscription models for textbooks, commercial publishers have refined their marketing pitches aimed at faculty -- sometimes by co-opting arguments in support ...
Access for Whom? OER and Disability Services
(The 15th Annual Open Education Conference, 2018-10-10)
A common misconception is that open educational resources (OER) are accessible for all students, in part, perhaps, because of the belief that digital content (as is typically the case with OER) is accessible by nature. As ...
Supporting OER Creation
(2019-08-08)
Cost savings realized through use of open educational resources (OER) draw much interest from policy makers and administrators, but the rhetoric of affordability isn’t always a powerful motivator for the educators who make ...
Open Educational Resources
(2019-08-16)
This introduction to open educational resources (OER) was presented to new faculty during orientation at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Deconstructing the Syllabus: Re-envisioning Digital Learning with the Shift to Canvas
(Region 11 Leveraging Canvas Conference, 2019-06-13)
A group of four faculty members and a librarian present ideas for integrating innovative tools and ideas into Canvas for student in higher education (The University of Texas at Arlington), with an overarching focus on ...