Tag Archives: oer

Open Pedagogy and Teaching with Zines

Posted on September 12, 2023 by geoffcain

I have recently, just for artistic inspirational reasons, went to San Francisco for the Labor Day weekend. My wife and I used to live there in the early 90s when we first graduated from college and got married. She worked … Continue reading →

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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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Open Textbooks, Open Doors (Revised)

Posted on October 26, 2022 by geoffcain

This is the latest version of a presentation I have been giving since 2008 on open education resources. It is kind of depressing because not much has changed in the cost of education except for the fact that despite the … 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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OER Faculty Institute

Posted on July 14, 2022 by geoffcain

Clover Park Technical College is excited to host our first OER Faculty Institute!  Dates: Fri., Aug. 5th and Sat., Aug. 6th Time: 9 am to 3 pm (PST) The Teaching & Learning Center at Clover Park Technical College is hosting a … Continue reading →

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Webinar: Indigenous Open Educational Resources

Posted on April 26, 2022 by geoffcain

This came in over the wire from Amanda Coolidge via Cable Green: Indigenous Open Educational Resources: Respectfully Uplifting Community Voice Date: May 24, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Open education is grounded in Western understandings of ownership, protocol, … 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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An Open Syllabus from OE4BW for Teaching the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

Posted on October 1, 2021 by geoffcain

This is from the abstract for a presentation that Jennifer Miller and I did for Open Education Global Conference. I am pretty excited about this work. Open research and open data are often things that scientists and other researchers do … Continue reading →

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