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Professional Development
Texas Learn OER
Welcome to Texas Learn OER! Your learning includes a series of self-paced online learning modules. The first nine modules will serve as an introduction to open educational resources (OER) and as an opportunity for further exploration and discovery of open education practices. The tenth module serves as a final assessment of your learning. Throughout the modules, there are opportunities for you to test your knowledge and further explore a concept. The modules allow you to learn at your own pace.
The OER Starter Kit Workbook
The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of the OER Starter Kit to include worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER). We welcome instructors, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and anyone else interested in OER to explore the OER Starter Kit Workbook.
Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom
This course provides faculty with an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, students will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course.
Office Hours by Rebus Community and Open Education Network
Rebus Community and the Open Education Network bring you "Office Hours," a monthly webinar series that tackles complex questions in open textbook publishing and community engagement. Guest speakers share a range of experiences and insights, followed by a Q&A session in which participants can pose specific queries on the themes at hand.
CCCOER Webinars
The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources.
Open Oregon Webinars
Open Oregon Educational Resources promotes textbook affordability for community college and university students, and facilitates widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials.
Open Education Network
We are an active community of higher education leaders that works together to build sustainable open education programs. The programs are designed to ignite, support, and sustain the needs of our community.
BC Campus Archives: Events
Bc Campus has a primary focus to support the post-secondary institutions of British Columbia as they adopt, adapt, and evolve their teaching and learning practices to create a better experience for students.
UTRGV's Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) provides collective conversations on teaching and learning as a public practice where faculty, staff, students, administrators, and community partners learn from each other to create more inclusive and equitable spaces of teaching and learning that transcend boundaries.
The University Library has partnered with CTE to provide conversations on various topics including Open Educational Resources, Open Educational Practices, and course implementation.
Reading about Open Education
Advancing an Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources: OER in Texas Higher Education
In 2019, DigiTex began partnering with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to conduct a biennial survey on OER programs, policies, and practices at postsecondary institutions across the state. The second survey, conducted in 2021, informed our most recent report, Advancing an Ecosystem for Open Educational Resources. With 111 colleges and universities responding, analyses of the survey data — and a comparison to data from Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Higher Education (2019) — reveal an ever-expanding OER landscape in Texas and help inform future statewide activities to support Open Education.
Best Practices in Texas Digital Higher Education: Creating and Adopting Open Educational Resources at Colleges and Universities Across the State
This new resource showcases three excellent examples of OER usage across the state of Texas including two different textbook projects, one individually authored and one produced through group collaboration, and a new medical program that is incorporating OER into its curriculum from the ground up. As you seek to promote and adopt OER at your own institution, we hope that you will find this resource useful.
The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics
A Comparison of Academic Outcomes in Courses Taught With Open Educational Resources and Publisher Content
Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE)
The Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE) is a Diamond Open Access journal. The journal features content concerned with OER, Open Pedagogy, Open Access, Open Data, and similar topics focusing specifically within the context of Higher Education in the United States and Canada.
Open Education Group
The Open Education Group is an interdisciplinary research group that (1) conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes and (2) designs and shares methodological and conceptual frameworks for studying the impact of OER adoption. We also teach courses in topics relating to open education.
DIGITEX Blog
The Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas provides members with access to research and emerging best practices in technology-enhanced education. It also helps members identify and implement innovative solutions that will make higher education more affordable and accessible for all Texans.
Open Education Network Blog
The Open Education Network (OEN) is a vibrant and supportive community that advances the use of open educational resources and practices. Members benefit from and contribute to the global open education ecosystem.
SPARC Open Education Forum is a listserv that builds community for individuals passionate about open education.
To learn more and join this Google group, click here.
This forum and email list was created to continue the conversation about Open Educational Resources in Texas that was started at the Statewide OER Summit. Anyone interested in OER issues related to higher education in Texas is welcome to join.
To join this email group, go to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/texas-oer-community-he and click “Apply to join.”
The CCCOER Community Email is a public discussion list intended for community college faculty, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and other educators who are interested in open education policy, practices, and resources.
To join this email group, click here.
OE Global Connect is an online community space for open educators everywhere. Join to create a welcoming space for the exchange of ideas, resources, and projects, but also to directly connect with practitioners and experts interested in advancing the value proposition of open education.
To join this community space, click here. You can make an account using the “sign up” button at the top of the page.
The OER Digest is a monthly newsletter for open education updates, opportunities, and reminders.
To learn more and subscribe to this email list, click here.
Conference Opportunities
Open Texas Conference
The Open Texas conference convenes librarians, faculty, administrators, and other educational practitioners and advocates from Texas and beyond.
Previous Open Texas session recordings are available to view here!
Open Education Conference
The Open Education Conference is an annual convening for sharing and learning about open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open education initiatives.
Building on a seventeen-year history, the conference is in the process of redesigning itself through a community-driven planning process, guided by a Steering Committee and organizing partnership.
Previous Open Ed session recordings are available to view here!