Following Monday’s post on services available in the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, we would like to spotlight the funding available through the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program. In collaboration with the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the DSCC supports faculty scholarship involving digital tools and open publishing. Past and current projects include oral…
Category: Open Educational Resources
Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
OER Grant Information Session Friday!
Interested in applying for an OER Adoption grant? Join our information session Friday at 11am to learn what the grant is all about. Hear from previous grant recipients – Michelle Dunlap, Emily Kuder, Derek Turner, and Karolin Machtans – and have your questions answered. Register for more information including the Zoom link.
Free Webinar: Open Pedagogy in Practice: Faculty Perspectives
Curious about open pedagogy and what it means to practice open pedagogy in your classroom? In this free webinar sponsored by the New England Board of Higher Education you will hear from open education leaders Dr. Robin DeRosa from New Hampshire, Dr. Jennifer Van Allen from New York, and Dr. Heather Miceli from Rhode Island….
Ariella Rotramel Named Digital Scholarship Fellow
The DSCC is pleased to announced that Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Ariella Rotramel is joining the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program to work on two projects related to sex work. As part of their research on casino cocktail waitressing in Atlantic City, Ariella will conduct an oral history project that…
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…
Upcoming (Virtual & Free!) OER Conferences
The CT OER Coordinating Council announced the 2nd annual CT OER Summit, “a virtual event spanning four days designed for faculty to learn how to implement OER, discipline-specific case studies, and the concepts of Open Pedagogy.” The Summit takes place Monday, March 1 through Thursday, March 4, 12:00 – 3:00pm each day. The full schedule and registration is…
Connecticut OER Grants Available
Are you interested in dipping your toes in the Open Educational Resources water? Curious to know what’s out there in your discipline and want to be compensated for reviewing OER material? Or maybe you recently decided to use OER in an upcoming course. The Connecticut Open Educational Resources Coordinating Council announced the second round of…
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…