February Office Hours: Instructional Design for OER
We will hear from three guests today who will speak informally about their experiences with instructional design for OER. And then we will look to all of you to direct the conversation, ask questions, share your local experiences, and otherwise kind of guide us in making this a useful and helpful hour for you.
Celebrating a Decade of the Open Textbook Library: Christina Hendricks on Being an Open Textbook Editor
Christina Hendricks is Professor of Teaching in Philosophy, and Academic Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology at the University of British Columbia Vancouver. She is the editor of the Introduction to Philosophy series (CC BY). Her focus is on teaching and learning relating to undergraduate students, with an interest in “the quality and efficacy of open textbooks.”
Celebrating a Decade of the Open Textbook Library: Student Duy Vo on Working for the Library
Duy Vo is a senior at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, set to graduate this spring with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from the College of Biological Sciences. Since 2020, Duy has worked for the Open Textbook Library (OTL) as a Student Admin, and as he prepares to leave, both he and the library are about to celebrate significant milestones.
January Office Hours: OER Challenges Facing Newcomers
Today's topic is OER challenges facing newcomers. And we are joined by Gabby Hernandez, who is the Open Education Librarian at the University of Texas, Rio Grande. Shannon Smith, who is the Open Educational Resources Librarian at Boise State University. And Cheryl Casey, who is the Open Education Librarian at the University of Arizona.
Anti-Racist Documents in Digital Publishing
...we will get oriented to several anti-racist documents in digital publishing, so that we can consider how they might be adapted for OER, journal and scholarly publishing organizations. Our goal is to offer a proactive foundation for authors, reviewers and editors to develop strategic anti-racist and anti-oppressive initiatives within their own spheres of influence.
Creating New Publishing Pathways
Since the Open Education Network (OEN) began supporting open textbook publishing five years ago, we’ve been inspired by the many ways that our members make it happen. Publishing an open textbook requires a lot of work! And, as we’ve seen in the exponential growth of the Open Textbook Library, that work is happening.
OEN at Open Publishing Fest: Launching a Grant-Funded Open Textbook Program
Today we’re talking with Amanda Hurford who is the Scholarly Communications Director at PALNI, and PALNI stands for the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana. She is joined by Jennifer Coronado who is Scholarly Communication Librarian at Butler University, part of PALNI, and Erin Milanese who is Affordable Learning Project Coordinator at PALNI. They are going to talk together about how they launched their first grant funded open textbook creation grants program.
Consortial Members Connect and Collaborate in New OEN Forum
First meeting in November 2021, the Nourishing Inter-Consortial Collaborative Excellence (NICE) group is a best practices forum hosted by the Open Education Network (OEN). The new online community provides consortial members an opportunity to connect and share OER initiative strategies and ideas, successes and failures, as well as questions and answers.
November Office Hours: The Power of No
I’m very excited to welcome you all to our 50th Office Hours session that we have conducted with our wonderful co-organizers, the Open Education Network. We thought it would be a really great milestone to hit this session by talking about sometimes slowing down and saying no to all of the wonderful ideas and opportunities that might cross our plates.
OEN at Open Publishing Fest: Open Publishing Survey Results
Today we're going to talk with Elaine Thornton who is associate professor and librarian of open education and distance learning at the University of Arkansas, and Jen Pate, OER and scholarly communications librarian at the University of North Alabama. Together they recently collaborated on an OER publishing survey, and I'm very excited that we are among some of the first to hear about what they discovered about the OER publishing landscape that so many of us are working in.