Open Education Week, March 7 – 11, 2022
Next week is Open Education Week 2022! Here are a few links to get you started thinking about Open Educational Resources (OER): The Library’s 2020 OE Week blog post, which Continue Reading →
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Open Educational Resources at Durham Tech (and a TLC Presentation on Nov. 3)
Have you heard of Open Educational Resources (OER)? Maybe you’ve heard they’re “free textbooks.” Maybe you’ve heard that replacing commercial textbooks with open textbooks improves students’ success and retention rates. Continue Reading →
Open Educational Resources in North Carolina Higher Education
March 1-5, 2021 is Open Education Week! North Carolina, like many states, is moving towards making Open Educational Resources a valid alternative to traditional publisher-controlled teaching resources. Today’s blog post Continue Reading →
Smithsonian Open Access: Open Educational Images (and a little bit about copyright)
Have you ever desperately needed the 3-D printed hands of Abraham Lincoln or a mammoth skeleton, but just couldn’t find the right file? Good news, everyone– the Smithsonian has released over 2.8 Continue Reading →
Open Education Meet & Greet Today, 11:00 – 12:15
Durham Tech’s chapter of NCPIRG Students is sponsoring an Open Education Meet & Greet today, on the main campus, in room 2-159. Instructors are invited to stop in and explore Continue Reading →
March 2 – 6, 2020 Is Open Education Week
Happy Open Education Week 2020! Open Education is a movement that promotes using free educational tools–such as textbooks–that instructors have the right to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. These Continue Reading →
Open Education Week: March 4-8, 2019
There are worldwide events and webinars this week to increase awareness about textbook costs as barriers to education and the potential for technology to enhance teaching and learning. Durham Tech Continue Reading →
Celebrating OER Week at Durham Tech
March 6-10 is Open Education Week! Open Educational Resources (OER) are high-quality educational materials that are available for free in the public domain and can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, Continue Reading →
Zero Textbook Cost Pathways for Career and Technical Education: Meeting Today, 5 PM
To celebrate Open Education Week 2022, San Mateo County (Calif.) Community College District and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) are hosting a Zoom-based conversation Continue Reading →
Reporting from #OpenEd21
I attended #OpenEd21, the online Open Education Conference, from October 18 – 22, 2021. There were many outstanding sessions at the conference. Fortunately, many of the presentations were recorded and Continue Reading →