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
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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
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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
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
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,
Open textbooks are digital educational textbooks made freely and legally available for anyone to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute to meet their course needs. Studies investigating student success – as determined by factors such as course completion, course grades, GPA,
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