Open Education Week: Making learning more affordable and accessible | McMaster University – Daily News

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Summary:

"From March 5 – 9, McMaster University Library is celebrating Open Education Week, a global event to raise awareness about how Open Education Resources (OER) can help make education more affordable and accessible to learners world-wide.

OER include teaching, learning and research resources, such as textbooks, assignment modules, and syllabi, that are openly available for public use and can be used, shared, or repurposed by anyone, anywhere – free of cost, technical, or legal barriers.

In support of Open Education Week, Library staff have created a display – located in the lobby of Mills Library – that features a ‘Mini Open Textbook Library,’ made up of a number of high quality open textbooks recently acquired by the Library, courtesy of eCampusOntario.*

The textbooks, from eCampusOntario’s extensive Open Textbook Library, cover topics from a range of disciplines including Canadian history, environmental biology, marketing and web literacy, among others. They are available in both hard copy and digital formats, and can be borrowed or accessed by students and faculty through the Library’s catalogue...."

Link:

https://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/article/open-education-week-making-learning-more-affordable-and-accessible/

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oa.new oa.oe_week oa.mcmaster.u oa.canada oa.libraries oa.awareness oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.courseware oa.books oa.events

Date tagged:

03/07/2018, 13:15

Date published:

03/07/2018, 08:16