Open Educational Resources (OERs) @ WPI
Dedicated to open, inclusive pedagogy for our WPI community and beyond
Guest post by Dr. Laila Abu-Lail (She/Her), Assistant Professor of Teaching, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) Living in a diverse world where technology is advancing every day, I find that access to
Read More Open educational resources centering diversity and inclusion in an engineering curriculum
Guest post by: Reza Ebadi, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Mechanical & Materials Engineering Department While the demand for skilled CAD modelers continues to rise, the available learning resources often fall short in terms of accessibility, content alignment, and representation. Many
Read More Increasing access, quality, and representation for CAD Modeling Education
Guest post by: Lou Roberts, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Biology and Biotechnology When I reflect on my exposure to the primary literature as a Biology and Biotechnology major at WPI, I recall being introduced to journal articles by
Guest Post by Dr. Natalie Farny, 2022-2023 EmpOwER Fellow, Assistant Professor, Biology & Biotechnology As an undergraduate student, I had no understanding of the process by which the scientific literature came to be. In fact, the idea that I could
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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!
Have you seen the calls to diversify your curriculum? What does that mean? And how can you do that with OERs? Diversifying your curriculum simply means that you are intentional and inclusive of a diverse set of voices and perspectives
The WPI OER Team has been awarded a grant from the Women’s Impact Network to continue past the pilot year our EmpOwER Faculty Fellows Program. The first year of funding supported seven fellows from a variety of disciplines – biological
Read More OER Team Awarded 2nd Year of WIN Grant to Continue EmpOwER Fellows Program
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
By: Courtney Kurlanska, Department of Integrative and Global Studies Sometimes everything just falls into place. That doesn’t mean it goes perfectly or comes out precisely as you would like, but when does that ever happen in real life? In the
Digital WPI, the institutional repository that houses all WPI undergraduate IQP (Interactive Qualifying Project) and MQP (Major Qualifying Project) reports as well as the WPI Electronic Theses & Dissertations collection, materials from WPI Archives and History Collection, and much more,