Events

Instructors are increasingly including open educational resources in their teaching material. Copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs will be discussed Tuesday, March 3, 2020 between 10am and 12pm in LIB 323.

Please contact kblair@uwaterloo.ca or kdweaver@uwaterloo.ca  to register by February 28, 2020.

This talk is presented by Professor James Skidmore, who describes the session as follows:

Learn how to search for and ethically use open educational resources in your course materials. This introductory workshop covers copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs. Join us for this interactive session Friday, October 23, 2020, between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Please contact Kathryn Blair (kblair@uwaterloo.ca) or Carmen Peters (cpeters@uwaterloo.ca) to register.

BCcampus has listed programming by the organization and affiliated institutions for OEW.

Policy is one of the key ingredients for sustainable, effective open education efforts. In this special Open Education Week webcast, members of the SPARC policy team will provide a timely update on the state of open education policy across the U.S. and Canada. What are the key trends in successful state and province-wide efforts? What are the opportunities with the new U.S. administration? What can community members do to advance open education policy in your context?

The target audiences for this webinar, presented jointly by SPARC Europe and EIFL, are "Open Science policymakers, Research Funding Organizations and Research Performing Organizations managers, librarians, repository managers and academic institutional copyright experts." More information

 

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Register here (all are welcome): https://bit.ly/39Wd707

Cascadia Open Education Summit 2021 is an event offered by BCcampus; California State University, Long Beach; Open Oregon Educational Resources; and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. This free digital conference explores innovation, research, and best practices in open education around the theme of “Regional influence. Global impact.” We are featuring a keynote speaker from each of our four represented regions to celebrate the achievements in open education made here on the West Coast.

Learn how to search for and ethically use open educational resources in your course materials. This introductory workshop covers copyright, licensing, sourcing, and selection of OERs. Join us for this interactive session Wednesday, June 29, 2021, between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. in Teams. If you would like to discuss a particular type of OER/repository/subject area during the workshop, please contact us.

Facilitators
Carmen Peters: cpeters@uwaterloo.ca
Kathryn Blair: kblair@uwaterloo.ca