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Looking to get caught up on all of LibreTexts cool new updates and features? Join us for our new series, First Friday Features, on the first Friday of every month to chat with a member of our team about everything you need to know about what's new in the LibreVerse.
Join us as we talk about two open educational resources: 1) Data Analysis for Social Scientists offered by MIT OpenCourseWare and 2) Accessible Appalachia by Lisa Day and Jacob Johnson, which can be found in the Open Education Network’s Open Textbook Library. While we will focus on just one resource each, we will highlight how […]
Is your campus looking for new and innovative ways to advocate for, and create OER? We have you covered with LibreTexts LibreNet consortium. For the incredibly low price of $1500/year your campus can have it's own branded commons on our platform, unlimited hosting of open textbooks, priority access to the LibreTexts team, and much, much […]
Join us for a brief 30-minute session to learn the work DOERS3 is doing to update the rubric formerly known as the Equity Through OER Rubric, which is currently under revision for its 2.0 update. In the session, you will hear how the group is moving forward with updates based on feedback and lessons learned […]
In this interview, Professor Bowker emphasises the importance of localisation in OER, noting that adapting language and cultural references increases student engagement. She highlights AI-driven automatic translation as a promising tool for localisation but stresses that human intervention is necessary for cultural adaptation, accuracy, and relevance. Collaboration among faculty, language experts, and students is key […]
Learn about how five faculty are using OER within their discipline. English, Inver Hills Community College Nursing, Minnesota State University, Mankato Special Education, Minnesota State University, Mankato Biology, Anoka-Ramsey Community College History, Minnesota State College Southeast
Continuing the Proactive Accessibility OER Series 2025, this workshop helps faculty finalize their OER projects by focusing on sourcing and evaluating open materials for accessibility. Participants will learn how to identify and assess openly licensed resources for critical accessibility features such as screen reader compatibility, proper tagging, and alt text. Faculty will also explore strategies for […]
This is the last of the OEWeek Live! sessions for Open Education Week 2025. These webcasts are set up as informal conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points. These conversational sessions start with sharing of their current […]
Are you interested in talking with colleagues about how AI impacts open educational resources and free course materials? Join instructional designer Jennifer Howze-Owens of the College of San Mateo for an informal conversation will touch on the intersection of teaching, learning, innovation, equity and beyond! Note: While this presentation's audience is primarily those in the […]
Hear the different ways faculty, staff, and students at University of Arkansas at Little Rock are utilizing Open Education resources in courses, events, and more! These fast-paced lightening talks allow multiple presenters to share their experiences in the span of an hour. This live event will be streamed via zoom. Register for the link.
Pressbooks is an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more! This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P interactivity, Hypothes.is annotation and embedded multimedia. If you’re looking to […]
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he shows you how to populate learning trees in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price […]
Join us for "Education: The Future is Open" – A Lecture by Richard Baraniuk, founder of OpenStax A grassroots movement is sweeping through the academic world. The "OpenEd" movement is based on a set of intuitions that are shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that knowledge should be free and open to use […]
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming education, bringing both opportunities and challenges for open educators. This interactive workshop, hosted by Dr Doug Belshaw and Dr Angela Gunder, explores a plurality of “AI Literacies” for understanding and applying AI within open education. Drawing from the recently-published paper-- part of MIT's AI and Open Education Initiative-- AI Literacies […]
Come join us and discover a wealth of open educational resources available through the VIVA Textbook Faculty Portal, the Open Textbook Library as well as other OER repositories. During this session, you will learn about navigating OER repositories and metafinders to find resources for your classes. We will also discuss open pedagogy approaches and assignments, […]
With the rapid advancement of generative AI technologies nowadays, it is beneficial to use these technologies effectively to create Open Educational Resources (OER). This talk introduces the essentialness of using generative AI technology in the OER context, particularly by applying a Text-to-Image model in the OER conversion tool “convOERter.” "convOERter" is a web-based tool that […]
Open Access Bangladesh and Librarian Voice are jointly organizing a special expert discussion as part of Open Education Week 2025, titled "The Role of Open Educational Resources in Education and Research: Opportunities and Challenges." This event will explore the significance of Open Educational Resources (OER), their impact on education and research, and the future potential […]
Hosted by the University of Kansas Open Language Resource Center the Language OER Conference is a venue to showcase large-scale language OER and to exchange information on topics related to OER production and adoption. The Language OER Conference is completely online and completely free. The 2025 Language OER Conference is scheduled for Saturday, March 8, […]
Podcasting provides students with the opportunity to gain experience in open educational practices including finding and using openly licensed audio and sharing their academic work with the wider community. Learn how to create your own podcast in this introductory and interactive workshop. This workshop will cover all levels of podcast production including content creation, recording, […]
Offene Lehrbücher: Zwischen allen Stühlen? Nicole Krüger, ZHAW Hochschulbibliothek In Nordamerika werden OER und «Open Textbooks» fast synonym gebraucht. Umfangreiche staatliche Förderungen flossen in die Veröffentlichung von Lehrbüchern, die heute in der Open Textbook Library oder der BCcampus Open Collection zu finden sind. Hier ist ein Unterschied zur OER-Praxis in Europa zu beobachten: Warum wurden […]
