Category: Open Education News
Apply for a Course Redesign Grant and transition to affordable and open course materials
Posted December 11, 2018
JMU Faculty and Instructors, Do you want to redesign your course to swap out an expensive textbook for an open, no cost, or library option? Are you looking for funding to create or adapt open educational resource materials for your […]
Movie Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Posted November 27, 2018
THE LIBRARIES will be hosting a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship on Friday, November 30 at noon in Carrier 301. Bring your lunch and join us for this hour-long documentary that focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind […]
Two JMU Library Employees Receive Grant to Explore Open Access Collections in Libraries.
Posted September 19, 2018
Yasmeen Shorish, Data Service Coordinator, and Liz Thompson, Instruction and Educational Resources Coordinator, received an $89,333 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant. In collaboration with the Association of Research Libraries, they will convene a series of national forums to […]
New Incentives & Programs Coming for Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Posted April 30, 2018
Open Educational Resources are: To help jumpstart wider creation and use of these resources, Congress recently approved a $5 million new, competitive federal grant program to “create new open textbooks or expand their use.” The Virginia General Assembly also just […]
OER Week – Exploring Open Educational Resources
Posted March 30, 2017
Open Educational Resources (OER) come in all shapes and sizes. Looking for course content, supplemental materials, quizzes, and more? Check out Lumen Learning and OER Commons. Are you a faculty member and want to learn more about OER? Register for Open Learning: A Connectivist […]
OER Week – Exploring Open Access Books
Posted March 29, 2017
Looking for more than textbooks? Check out scholarly monographs released under Creative Commons licenses, also known as Open Access Books. To find a variety of open access books, visit Knowledge Unlatched, JSTOR Open Access eBooks, OAPEN, and University of Michigan Press.
OER Week – Exploring Open Textbooks
Posted March 28, 2017
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed” according to the Open Textbook Library. To find open textbooks in your subject, visit the Open Textbook Library, OpenStax, Open SUNY Textbooks, and College Open Textbooks.
Expanding Access and Inclusion by Combating the Rising Cost of Textbooks
Posted March 20, 2017
By: Jenne Klotz We have all probably been surprised by the cost of a textbook at some point. And we’ve probably all experienced frustration about what to do about it—we choose the best resources for our classes but we have […]