Open Education Week
Did you know that it’s Open Education Week! All kinds of things are happening all over the world and it’s your chance to get involved! Check out the official website for more information!
Posts from the ‘openaccess’ Category
Mar 5
Jan 31
Unpaywall
WiLS has just learned about an open source resource that we want to share. Unpaywall is an open database of more that 24 million free scholarly articles. They harvest Open Access content from over 50,000 publishers and repositories, and make it easy to find, track, and use. There’s a Chrome browser extension and available integrations into a variety of link resolvers. Users of Dimensions, Web of Science and Scopus can already access the data through those platforms as well. Check in out!
Oct 22
Call for Proposals: 2019 “E”ffordability Summit
The “E”fforability Summit Planning Committee, has sent out a Call for Presentations for the 2019 “E”ffordability Summit: Be The Change. Please be a part of the movement and consider submitting a presentation proposal.
The 2019 Summit will be held at UW-Stout in Menomonie, WI on Wednesday, March 27th and Thursday March 28th.
They are excited to announce two great keynote speakers, OER Advocates Rajiv Jhangiani of Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Robin DeRosa of Plymouth State University. Rajiv and Robin will be giving a collaborative keynote on both days of the Summit. The 2019 Summit website will go live on November 1st, 2018 and registration will be open. Visit:https://effordabilitysummit2019.jimdo.com/
Please register early, as they are expecting an even better turnout for the Summit than last year.
If you are interested in submitting a presentation proposal, please see this word document and use this link to submit: https://uwstout.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7VBNG0aOdS9tANv
Presentation proposals will be due on Monday, December 3rd. The presentation link is currently active.
If you have any questions about the proposal process please contact Cory Whipkey,
If you are a vendor/organization interested in sponsoring the 2019 Summit, please contact Cory Mitchell,
Sep 20
Community for Open Wisconsin Steering Committee
Charge
The Community for Open Wisconsin Steering Committee is charged with serving the mission and guiding the direction of the Community for Open Wisconsin to identify opportunities, delineate priorities, and to serve as COW communication liaisons to respective communities.
The COW Steering Committee will meet four times each year: in-person at the WLA Annual Conference (October) and the UW-Stout E-ffordability Summit (March) with virtual meetings in January and July.
Members
Bob Butterfield, UW-Stout, Chair
Hilary Barker, Wisconsin Technical College System
Jennifer Chamberlain, UW Colleges
Andrea Coffin, WiLS
Cindy Domaika, Nicolet Technical College
Larry Duerr, Alverno College
Kaye Henrickson, CESA 4
Kim Larson, Fox Valley Technical College, Learning Innovations, Wisc-Online.com
Melissa Matz, Brookfield East High School
Vince Mussehl, Chippewa Valley Technical College
Carrie Nelson, UW-Madison
Elizabeth Neuman, DPI
Emily Rogers, Brown County Public Library
Jane Roisum, Fox Valley Technical College
Jen Thiele, Marinette County Consolidated Public Library
Kris Turner, UW Law Library
Steel Wagstaff, Pressbooks
Aug 22
OpenStax Expected to Save Students $17.4M on Textbooks
Eleven U.S. colleges and universities that partnered with Rice University-based nonprofit publisher OpenStax last summer to encourage the use of freely available learning materials expect to save their students nearly $17.4 million on textbook and materials costs in the coming academic year. Most of the projected savings — $10.7 million — are a result of initiatives implemented during OpenStax’s institutional partnership program.
Read the full article from Rice University.
Aug 9
WiLSWorld Shorts: Open Educational Resources: The State of the State
Open Educational Resources (OER) are on the minds of many librarians across the state as a way to further the library’s educational mission, to reduce educational costs for students, to retain access to and leverage faculty publications, and to broaden access generally to educational materials. A number of colleges and organizations have launched OER initiatives and in this webinar on Friday, September 7th at 1:00pm, we will learn more about four of them: Chippewa Valley Tech’s Affordable Resource Movement Initiative, DPI’s WISELearn initiative, UW-Stout’s E-ffordabilty Summit, and UW-Milwaukee’s OER work. We’ll also hear what other states are doing to support OER and what is on the horizon for the Community for Open Wisconsin, the WLA OER Special Interest Group.
Presenters: Bob Butterfield (UW-Stout), Vince Mussehl (Chippewa Valley Technical College), Elizabeth Neuman (DPI), Kristin Woodward (UW-Milwaukee)
WiLSWorld Shorts are quarterly, free webinars to continue the learning that happens at WiLSWorld all year long! These webinars are designed to do all the same things as WiLSWorld – connect our member community around important issues, foster the exchange of ideas, and help members form professional connections and collaborations to get done what they need to get done.
The meeting will be recorded and shared but we do hope to see you there! If you have suggestions for other topics you’d like to hear more about or that you’d like to share with other WiLS members in WiLSWorld Shorts, contact us at .
Jul 30
$5 Million Open Textbook Pilot Grant Program from the Department of Education
The U.S. Department of Education’s first grant for open educational resources, totaling $5 million, will be awarded in late September to between one and three applicants, the department announced today in a call for proposals published in the Federal Register.
Read more about the program from Inside Higher Ed or SPARC.
Jul 23
The Impact of OER at University of Georgia
Inside Higher Ed published a fascinating report on a large-scale study conducted at the University of Georgia. The study showed a measurable improvement in grades in classes that switched to OER textbooks. It’s a great story, and might be helpful in making the case for OER on your campus!
Jun 11
Ontario College Libraries’ OER Toolkit
The Ontario College Libraries have launched their new Open Educational Resources Toolkit. The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice. The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.
You can learn a lot more about the toolkit (and try it out!) at https://www.ocls.ca/news/ontario-college-libraries-launch-oer-toolkit
May 8
OER Roundtable at WiLSWorld 2018
Interested in learning more about what others are doing with open educational resources? Come to the OER Roundtable at WiLSWorld 2018 to learn from your peers and to hear about some tools and initiatives happening in Wisconsin and beyond. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, learn from others, and share your expertise on the topic, too.
WiLSWorld Registration is open now and there are TON of other great programs too. Join us!
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