What is the last thing relating to Open Education/ OER that you have heard/ read about?

Joerdis Weilandt (12/ 2017)

From TC 2016 Teaching Environment Survey: 170 respondents on Open Educational Resources use in their teaching practice

Open Education Practices at the U of L

● Rising textbook costs

● Publishers oligopoly impacting instructor’s academic freedom

● Lack of awareness of no/ low cost alternatives

● Lack of understanding of Open licensing/ Open Access

● Challenging discoverability of Open academic resources

● Biased perception of Quality of OER

● Lack of institutional support (no verbal expression of importance of the matter/ no

formal recognition of Open efforts as in promotion guidelines or time relief/ no

incentives for OER production)

Open Education Inamorato dos Santos, A., Punje, Y., Castano-Munos, J. (2016). Opening up Education. A support Framework for Higher Education Institutions. JRS Science for Policy Report.

More than 200,000 CAD

Cost savings to U of L students Fall 2014 - 2017

Open Education today: CHANGES AND IMPACT of #OER in 2016-2017

Loewenzahn_samen By MatthiasKabel assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0

➔ building the capacity of users to find, re-use, create and share OER; ➔ language and cultural issues; ➔ ensuring inclusive and equitable access to quality OER;➔ developing sustainability models; ➔ and developing supportive policy environments.

BCcampus’ Open Education Grants recipients offer ZED CRED program

We want to encourage and support the adoption, adaptation and creation of OER/ low cost alternatives to provide students with high-quality, innovative learning materials, empower Faculty and Teaching staff to exercise their full academic freedom and to invite all campus-players to make evidence-based decisions that are all geared towards enhancing current teaching practices at the UofL.

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