The Connecticut OER Coordinating Council is excited to announce the CT OER Summit, a five-day virtual event for new and experienced OER users. The Summit provides faculty and departmental leadership in Connecticut higher education the opportunity to learn effective practices in OER implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research. See the Full Program Online! When: March 6…
Category: Open Educational Resources
Open Pedagogy & Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a platform used to create, customize and host your own original content, such as an open educational resource or a digital scholarship project. It can also be used as a teaching tool to engage students and create real-world assignments that can be shared with the public. In Professor Andy Lanoux’s FYS, students created…
Open Access Week Day 4: Environmental Effects of Textbooks
International open access week is a time to focus on sharing information and knowledge across disciplines and geographic boundaries. Yet it is also a time to think very concretely about the waste that is produced by the millions of textbooks that are produced each year and then tossed in landfills. Open Access titles allow students…
Open Access Week Day 3: Climate Resources at Shain Library
Consistent with Connecticut College’s status as an early implementer of an environmental studies major (initially founded as the “human ecology” major in 1968) and with solid library holdings in environmental studies (collections include the Linda Lear Collection of Rachel Carson Books and Papers; Nature Conservancy papers; Connecticut College Arboretum Bulletins and records; and the faculty…
Faculty Recipient of CT State OER Grant Publishes Asian Art & Architecture Image Database
In April 2021 Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies Di Luo was awarded a State of Connecticut Open Educational Resources (OER) Impact Grant for her proposal to publish a publicly-accessible image database in collaboration with her students across several courses in Asian art. Upon its launch in December 2021, Asian Art &…
We know you’re busy, but don’t forget to submit your OER grant proposal!
The Connecticut College OER Grant provides funding and staff support to faculty who wish to create or integrate OER into a course. Applications are due December 15. See the Call for Proposals for all details, and don’t hesitate to contact us (Jessica or Ariela) with questions or for a consultation. Adoption and Revision of Existing…
Grant Opportunity from the Connecticut Open Educational Resource Coordinating Council
The Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council has announced the Call for Proposals for the 2022 Connecticut Open Educational Resources Grant Program. Grants are available for adoption of OER as well as creation of new material. Many Connecticut College faculty have received grants through this CT sponsored program and we encourage you to apply. There are two information sessions: November 9th at 1pm…
Plan Your Open Access Week Schedule Now!
Learn something new for your teaching or research every day during Open Access Week! All workshops will be online; join us from the comfort of your office or home. MONDAYData Visualization I: Explore and Clean Data with OpenRefineMonday, Oct 25th at 1:15pm This workshop will introduce OpenRefine, a powerful but user-friendly program for exploring and…
Domains & Websites Virtual Workshops
Join us this Wednesday, October 6 for another Domains and Websites workshop! Register here. Faculty, students, and staff are welcome to join. The informal workshop is tailored to what participants come to learn or do!
Domains & Websites Workshops
Drop into our biweekly virtual workshops to show off a digital project you’re working on and gain feedback, learn how to make your own website, or troubleshoot as you develop your site. Domain of One’s Own is our hosting system for many web applications used for class projects and open scholarly publishing, including WordPress, PressBooks,…
