In the Spotlight: OER Fellowship | The Open Road

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Summary:

This week we’re spotlighting the OER Fellowship project site on the OpenLab. Beginning in 2015, City Tech’s OER Fellowship supports full-time faculty in creating open educational resources (OERs) – or educational websites comprised of open-source and publically available materials that will consolidate and/or replace their course texts. While an important draw of OERs is the cut in textbook costs to students, during our Open Pedagogy event on this topic last year, Professors and 2016 OER Fellows Sue Brandt and Ari Maller also discussed the greater degree of flexibility in and customizability of content that OERs provide. Relatedly, Professor Brandt discussed the ability to keep course content up-to-date even if only by adding current examples, while Professor Maller enjoyed the ease of assigning texts of various mediums (i.e. videos, images).  

Link:

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/openroad/in-the-spotlight-oer-fellowship/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amyluv's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.oer oa.courseware oa.textbooks oa.prices oa.access oa.pedagogy oa.advocacy oa.books

Date tagged:

10/03/2017, 12:36

Date published:

10/03/2017, 08:36