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Six OER Student Cost Savings and Cost-Benefit Principles for Decision Makers
Published by: WCET | 3/8/2022
WCET is happy host the National Consortium of Open Educational Resources (NCOER), which facilitates collaborative efforts of the four regional higher education compacts: Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC), New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), […]
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OER Zero to Sixty in Five Years: One University’s Pathway to 60% Participation
Published by: WCET | 2/3/2022
The University of Arkansas Cossatot is a small community college in the southwest corner of Arkansas with approximately 1,400 students. Among two-year colleges in Arkansas, we lead in OER usage, but it didn’t happen overnight. It took collaboration between college […]
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New Tool Helps Leaders Leverage Open Educational Resources to Advance Equity
Published by: WCET | 7/29/2021
Today Frontiers is excited to welcome Rebecca Karoff, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs with The University of Texas System to tell us about the work of the DOERS3 Collaborative, specifically the OER Equity Blueprint and the Equity Through OER […]
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Open Education Week 2021: A virtual trip around the globe
Published by: WCET | 3/5/2021
Happy #OEWeek! This week we celebrated with our WCET, higher education, and open education community on social media and learned through a wonderful guest post from Jenny Parks and Regina Gong. Check out their post for information on leveraging partnerships […]
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Leveraging Regional Partnerships for a State-wide OER Community
Published by: WCET | 3/3/2021
Happy Open Education Week! What can be accomplished when we all work together for educational equity? This week’s blog post by Jenny Parks and Regina Gong answers that question (Hint: the answer is going to blow your mind and make […]
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Open in a Time of Crisis
Published by: WCET | 4/16/2020
As an ongoing part of WCET’s efforts to help faculty and staff respond to the pandemic, today Dr. Tanya Spilovoy, our resident Open Educational Resources (OER) expert, takes a look at the role openness and OER can play as institutions […]
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The Landscape of OER Policy and Practice in Texas
Published by: WCET | 12/19/2019
Welcome to Judith Sebesta, Executive Director of the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas (DigiTex), who joins us with an update on the strategic planning process for the former Virtual College of Texas and to tell us about this year’s […]
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Three Keys to Opening the Door for OER
Published by: WCET | 11/6/2019
Today marks the finale for our 2019 WOW Award series. The WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Awards honor member institutions and organizations that develop technology-based solutions to challenging educational needs. As we mentioned last week, we have three outstanding award winning […]
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Real Talk: What is Your Employability Strategy?
Published by: WCET | 10/18/2019
In just a few short weeks WCET will convene this year’s Annual Meeting in beautiful Denver, CO. This year’s meeting promises to be full of outstanding sessions and great networking opportunities. One of the sessions will be offered by one […]
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Creating Videos to Explore Open Education
Published by: WCET | 9/18/2019
Welcome today to Abbey Elder, the Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian for Iowa State University, who is here to discuss the development of a series of videos about open education. Abbey’s post today provides a wonderful outline for how […]