Are you curious about collaborative annotation and want to learn more about Hypothesis? You may be new to using the tool for social annotation in Moodle, or maybe you’re looking for fresh ways to make it a part of your teaching and learning. Wherever you are on your social annotation journey, check out the upcoming…
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Open Education Week 2021
Happy Open Education Week! An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide. Here at Connecticut College, faculty members saved students thousands of dollars by moving to open educational resources for their courses. Read about the latest round of OER…
Open Educational Resources Grant 2020-21
The Connecticut College Open Educational Resources Grant is now open for applications. The grant provides funding and staff support to faculty who wish to create or integrate OER into a course. Funding is generously supported by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, Academic Resource Center, Office of the Dean of Students, and Information Services…
Happy Open Access Week 2020!
The theme for Open Access Week, October 19-25, is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Open Access allows for the unrestricted sharing of scholarly research and offers an alternative to a traditional subscription model that is costly and hidden behind a paywall. It has the potential to greatly accelerate the…
Writing and Publishing an Open Textbook
Are you considering creating an open textbook for a course? Ideal for online and traditional learning environments, open educational resources allow for faculty innovation while increasing student access and cost savings. There are many online tools available to guide the process and research support and curricular technology staff can assist in all steps of the…
Hypothesis: Collaborative Annotation Tool
Hypothesis is a free online tool designed to allow for collaborative annotation across the web. It can be used to annotate web pages and pdfs publicly, privately, or within a group. We enabled the Hypothesis plugin in Moodle so it works within your courses. With Moodle integration, students don’t have to create an account with Hypothesis…
Shain Library Celebrates Open Education Week, March 2-6, 2020
Open educational resources have replaced traditional textbooks in many courses at the College resulting in significant cost savings for students. Faculty in biology, math, economics and other departments have adopted open textbooks. Professor Derek Turner, in the philosophy department, has written an open textbook, Form and Content: An Introduction to Formal Logic, for his introductory…
OER Grant Success Stories
Congratulations to the following faculty who received an Open Educational Resources Grant in spring 2019 and are using OER in their courses this fall! Derek Turner, Philosophy Professor Turner received a creation grant to write a textbook for his introductory logic class. Form and Content: An Introduction to Formal Logic Textbook published in 2019 under…