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OER and Open Education Week at FAU

Image source: OE Global, 2023

Open Education Week is March 6 – 10, 2023. It is an internationally recognized time with the goals of improving the quality, accessibility, and affordability of education by facilitating and encouraging open education practices. 

What do open access, open data, open science, and open education resources (OER) have in common? Educators use them and other means to make teaching and learning available to a broader range of people. Traditional education is essential to prepare learners for many aspects of their future, while open education complements it in the following ways:

• Leverages technology and online access to information to deliver teaching and learning activities in various formats and across distances.
• Promotes creating and sharing lesson plans, learning materials, and various learning objects.
• Improves the availability of educational opportunities by creating learning environments for those who are unable to participate in traditional colleges or universities.
• Organizes professional development communities to promote various open education practices.

Open Education Resources (OER). OER is defined as teaching and learning materials that can be freely used or reused at no cost. They can include textbooks as well as images, lesson plans, learning objects, and courseware. OER typically makes learning materials and objects available with minimal barriers or costs. They can augment assigned textbooks when they do not adequately cover the content necessary to fulfill learning objectives.

If you are interested in learning more about OER, register for an upcoming webinar and see the Libraries’ Research Guides:

• Open Educational Resources (OER): Supporting Affordability, Accessibility, and Learning [Webinar]

Monday, March 13, from 12:15 to 12:50 PM

Register at https://tinyurl.com/3n539ddn.

Presented by the Center for Online and Community Education Professional Development Webinar with Kristy Padron, Scholarly Communication Services Librarian

• Open Education Resources (OER) Research Guide:  https://libguides.fau.edu/oer

Image Source:  OE Global (2023). Open education week promotion kit [Image]. Permission by CC BY-4.0. https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/pages/promote/

Originality statement:  Posted on March 9, 2023 on FAU Libraries External Relations, Blog and News at https://library.fau.edu/external-relations/oer-and-open-education-week-fau.