Category Archives: OER

OER Faculty Institute Extends CFP

Posted on June 7, 2023 by geoffcain

The OER Faculty Institute CFP extended to June 16th: The Clover Park Technical College’s Teaching and Learning Center is excited to invite proposals for the 2023 OER Faculty Institute to be held on August 11th and 12th completely online. Our … Continue reading →

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Organic Chemistry Textbook Goes Open Access

Posted on August 25, 2022 by geoffcain

This in from Boyoung Chae of the Washington SBCTC via the Open WA newsletter: Best-selling organic chemistry textbook becomes open access Brace yourselves, chemistry students and fans of the field: John McMurry’s best-selling textbook, Organic Chemistry, is about to become … Continue reading →

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Lumen Learning, Course Hero, and Other Strange Bedfellows

Posted on August 9, 2022 by geoffcain

Why Does This Matter? Most people following this story know the essential details: Lumen Learning has off-loaded openly licensed course materials to Course Hero. Edsurge has been publishing industry articles on this. If you don’t know Course Hero, it is … Continue reading →

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OER Faculty Institute Update

Posted on July 27, 2022 by geoffcain

Attached you will find the program for the OER Faculty Institute hosted by the Teaching & Learning Center at Clover Park Technical College. From our previous notice: Clover Park Technical College is excited to host our first OER Faculty Institute! … Continue reading →

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OERcamp.global Starts Next Week

Posted on November 30, 2021 by geoffcain

Jennifer Miller and I are presenting at this event on the Open Science Syllabus. This just in from #OERcampglobal… Dear Everyone interested in Open Education!  It’s only a few days until #OERcampglobal (9–11 Dec)! We’re going to gather for 48 hours … Continue reading →

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Browsing and Downloading Smithsonian CC0 Content

Posted on March 2, 2020 by geoffcain

This is here as a quick note to some faculty I am working with on courses that are (ideally) using open content. The Smithsonian announced that they were removing copyright restrictions to nearly 3 million from their collections. This includes … Continue reading →

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Everything New is Old Again: OER and Assessment

Posted on August 27, 2019 by geoffcain

I have been commenting on “online homework systems” and testing in general as assessment via blog postings and Twitter from David Wiley and Clint Lalonde. Obviously, it is difficult to tease out any kind of real argument on Twitter, so … Continue reading →

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The Commons and OER: Metaphors Matter

Posted on November 19, 2018 by geoffcain

David Wiley in his blog, Iterating Towards Openness, wrote a post on the Commons metaphor and OER: “…is the commons the right metaphor for our work with OER? There are incredibly important – some might argue fundamental – differences between commons and … Continue reading →

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LiDA103: Open education, copyright and open licensing in a digital world

Posted on May 8, 2018 by geoffcain

I got this reminder for the free, micro-course from Wayne Mackintosh this morning. I am really looking forward to participating. I will be posting what I learn and about the people I meet here on this blog. Projects like these … Continue reading →

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How OERs Will Destroy the Future!

Posted on April 18, 2018 by geoffcain

LeiLani Cauthen published an opinion piece called “Are you still going to prefer OER? The $2.28 Billion Loss to Publishers & the Future – Part 1” that has been batted around Twitter for the last couple of days (thanks Robin … Continue reading →

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