2024 EDI Summer Book Club: 4. Universal Design
Now entering its fourth year, the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Summer Book Club is excited to announce this year’s book selection, Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses of Disability) by Jay T. Dolmage. Synchronous meetings are held on Thursdays, 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central/1 PM Mountain/12 PM Pacific/9 AM Hawaii-Aleutian Time. Sessions are 1.5 hours […]
OE Global 2024 Live: August and Counting
We are one month closer to Nov 13-15 and being in Brisbane for OEGlobal 2024. In this month’s live webcast you have an opportunity to meet at least one of our keynote speakers, Siobhan Leachman as well as get an earlier preview of the conference draft schedule. Guests in the studio include: Also, representatives of the conference planning […]
Faculty for OER: An Interactive Panel Discussion
Higher education is increasingly busy, and faculty often work with minimal resources and support. In this webinar, you’ll hear from three faculty members who decided to get involved in open education in spite of these constraints. Panelists will share their experiences adopting, adapting, and creating Open Educational Resources (OER). This moderated panel discussion will be […]
OE Global 2024 Live: Deep Dive into the Program and the “AND” Conference Format
Hello Brisbane, can you hear us getting closer yet to the OEGlobal 2024. In this month’s live webcast we are taking both a broad and deep look into details and specific sessions of conference draft program. We will hear about involvement of the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) in the program and specifically on the workshops they are […]
Demos Wednesday Live: H5P in Big Blue Button
Join us for a first of an OEGlobal new live webcast series, Demos Wednesday Live. Each episode will feature a live demo, no presentation slides, of a technology, an Open Education Resource, a project web site. The idea is to demonstrate something in action and have a live conversation with the people behind it. In […]
California’s Big Bet on ZTCs (CCCOER Webinar)
In 2021, California made the largest public investment in history in OER and Zero Textbook Cost degrees with a $115M grant program. Beginning in 2022, all California Community Colleges received funds to develop and implement ZTC pathways. As of 2024, colleges are developing hundreds of ZTC pathways to transform the student experience in the country’s […]
Demo Wednesdays Live: Quick Start to Markdown Publishing: Using Docsify-This with GitHub and Codeberg Files
Join us for another live webcast demo! Paul Hibbitts will show and then guide us through a hands on experience using Docsify-This. An open tool for instantly turning online markdown files into web pages, Docsify-This lowers the barriers to Markdown open publishing. By providing a low-barrier, flexible, and open-source solution, Docsify-This significantly increases the ability […]
In the OEG Voices Podcast Studio with Frontiers for Young Minds
In this live session we welcome representatives from Frontiers for Young Minds, a platform where young students peer review papers by top scientists to publish openly licensed articles that share science research in an approachable format for all ages. Frontiers for Young Minds was recognized with a 2024 Open Education Awards as a Significant Impact […]
Conference of the Air Goes on the Air (DS106 Radio)
In this premiere of the Conference of the Air concept to broadcast portions of the Nov 13-15 OEGlobal 2024 Conference Alan Levine is bringing to studio our colleagues from Reclaim Hosting, who manage the DS106 internet radio station -- Jim Groom, Maren Deepwell, and Taylor Jardin. Like old fashioned radio, there is always something on […]
Two Open Education Conferences Meet in a Café: What Do They Talk About?
Within weeks this year are two long-running open education events: the Open Education Conference (October 8-10, Providence, USA, and hybrid/online) and the Open Education Global Conference (November 13-15, Brisbane, Australia, and online AND conference approach). This conversation includes representatives from the planners of each conference many of whom are participants in both events. What unfolds […]
Demo Wednesdays Live: A Tour of the World of OER Via the OER World Map
The OER World Map started in 2014 as a data collection effort to annotate the globe with organizations, people, projects, events, resources, all related to Open Educational Resources. The project went offline a few years ago but has returned under the leadership and development of OERInfo. For another in our exciting of live demos, you […]
Demo Wednesdays Live: Delmar Larsen with the Open-Source ADAPT Homework System
One limiting factor in large-scale adoption of OER is the absence of comparable free or low-cost homework platforms to complement existing and developing OER textbooks. This live demonstration will let you see first hand how LibreTexts is aiming to remove this barrier by building and expanding the open-source ADAPT homework system - a central component […]