Information session

This workshop has been cancelled. If you are interested in learning more about the grant please reach out to us at OERgrant@uwaterloo.ca or review the grant guidelines.

Presented by Lauren Byl and Abbey Colucci

Making learning materials freely accessible and available to the Waterloo community is part of the Library's mission.

Presented by Lauren Byl and Abbey Colucci
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

Making learning materials freely accessible and available to the Waterloo community is part of the Library's mission.

Presented by Tim Ireland and Agnes Zientarska-Kayko
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 1 – 2 pm
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

Bring your computer to this hands-on Zotero workshop. Zotero is an online citation management software program. If you are writing any academic papers, this software will save you a lot of time and frustration. We will guide you through:

Presented by Sandra Keys, Vicky Chung and Anneliese Eber
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

Depositing and making your research data available for (maybe) sharing is becoming increasingly important and often required by funding agencies and journals.

Presented by Lauren Byl
Date: Tues Oct 24
Time: 10 – 11 am
Location: Dana Porter Library Room 329, Computer Lab

How do you choose a quality journal? What are predatory journals? How do you avoid publishing in a predatory journal?  By the end of this workshop, you will:

• Understand what makes a journal predatory
• Have tips and tricks to use to identify quality and predatory journals
• Know who to reach out to for help

Moderator: Mark Morton, senior educational developer, CTE

Join us for a panel featuring OER Fellows 2022 recipients. Panelists will discuss their ongoing projects, the benefits of OER funding in supporting this work, and practical considerations in creating, adapting and sharing OERs.

Speaker: Kari Weaver (learning, teaching, & instructional design librarian)

Speakers: Zoë Carbone (student), Sabrina Romano (student), James Skidmore (professor, Germanic & Slavic Studies)

This presentation will address this head on by shedding light on the adaptation process: the mechanics of going about it, the problems that sometimes arise, the editing decisions that need to be made.

Speakers: Rebecca MacAlpine (graduate educational developer, CTE), and Svitlana Taraban-Gordon (senior educational developer, CTE)

Speaker: Sandra Lopez Rocha (intercultural learning specialist, Student Success Office)

Intercultural competence (IC) is an area of personal development that informs and influences interactions across formal and informal contexts involving cultural difference. Although there are numerous programs aimed at supporting learners’ engagement with IC components, there is a limited availability of comprehensive programs offered as open access resources.