Open Educational Resources (OERs) @ WPI
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The EMPOwER (Engaging More Powerfully, Openly with Educational Resources) Team invites you to apply for a developmental Women’s Impact Network (WIN) grant to support your use of Open Educational Resources (OERs). One goal of this program is to support faculty
Read More OER Development Grants: Call for AY23-24 Proposals Opens Oct. 25!
The EMPOwER (Engaging More Powerfully, Openly with Educational Resources) Team invites you to apply for a developmental Women’s Impact Network (WIN) grant to support your use of Open Educational Resources (OERs). One goal of this program is to support faculty
The last day of Open Education Week 2022 is a great time to look forward to more open education support and opportunities! In Washington, members of Congress have reintroduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, a bill to expand the use and
WPI is justly proud of its exemplary teaching and its path-breaking recognition through tenure and promotion paths of faculty whose primary role at WPI is teaching. In our new tenure and promotion guidelines, WPI defines SoTL as: “…the development and
How are OER and open pedagogy related? A great place to begin thinking about this question is through Robin DeRosa’s work. Robin is currently Director of the Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative (Open CoLab) at Plymouth State University, where they
During Open Education week you don’t have to look far to find exciting initiatives that are building new open education resources that also help create more inclusive learning experiences for all students. In September 2021 a consortium of six
Read More Massachusetts Colleges Collaborate to Create Culturally Relevant Open Textbooks
Want to explore open education and open educational resources? Curious what it’s all about? You’ve picked the perfect time, Open Education Week 2022, when teachers and universities around the world are sharing how they are taking action to reduce the
Good news for those who prefer print: an Oregon OER organization has compiled an online list of OERs available as print editions for reasonable prices from self-publishing (Lulu) and institutional (Stanford University, SUNY) platforms. In a 2019 story announcing the
Read More OER Petting Zoo: reasonably priced print editions of OERs
Over 50 WPI faculty from 20 departments and programs responded to survey questions in B Term about how they choose course materials, what kinds of access their students have to these materials, and their awareness and interest in learning more
Read More WPI faculty share what course materials they require and how they use OERs
In fall 2021 WPI students were invited to respond to an informal survey to tell us whether they buy required textbooks, how they feel about textbook costs, and other ways they get access to course materials. Of the 207 students