Keep your finger on the OER pulse!
A publicly funded organization that uses information technology to connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all B.C. post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework. Their Open Textbook initiative is gaining momentum!
A global, annual event showcasing and discussing OER.
A California-based organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share through their release of copyright licenses available free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning, an organization dedicated to increasing student success and improving the affordability of education through the adoption of open educational resources.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
Follow tags such as #openeducation, #OER, and #opened on Twitter to engage with the active worldwide discussion.
Interested in developing an Open project?
BCIT has an open education grants program.
BCcampus provides funding for open education initiatives.
"It just allows us to be way more creative with our teaching. We're no longer just having to lecture, going off the textbooks and notes that we have, we can involve the students in the co-creation". - Chad Flinn, BCIT Instructor
Video: "Open Dialogues - How to Engage and Support Students in Open Pedagogies" (UBC)
"For David Gaertner, it is important that his students have the opportunity to create work with a broader impact, that can live beyond the classroom walls. 'A big part of my pedagogy is getting students to think outside the limitations of the university,' explains Gaertner, an instructor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies".
Practical tips for making the font, colour, links, and other OER choices accessibile to everyone.
A fantastic review of OEP, including its impact and challenges.
"Engaging students with OEP may motivate students to become engaged in the learning process... [by] involving them as contributors, collaborators, partners, knowledge creators, and reviewers (Nel, 2017)". Paskevicius, M. (2017). Conceptualizing Open Educational Practices through the Lens of Constructive Alignment. Open Praxis, 9(2), 125-140. doi:https://dx.doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.2.519