{"id":814,"date":"2021-02-08T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T22:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/?p=814"},"modified":"2021-02-19T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T14:50:55","slug":"temple-university-celebrates-open-education-week-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/2021\/02\/08\/temple-university-celebrates-open-education-week-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple University Celebrates Open Education Week 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Temple University Libraries is celebrating Open Education Week<\/a> March 1-5. Open Education Week is a yearly celebration designed to raise awareness about open educational resources and practices.<\/p>\n

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are free to read and reuse. Examples of OER include videos, problem sets, slides, and textbooks. Open educational practices — also known as open pedagogy<\/a> — use OER to support learning and invite\u00a0students to be part of the teaching process, participating in the co-creation of knowledge.<\/p>\n

At Temple, faculty across the schools and colleges are using OER in their classes. Faculty often assign OER in order to make their courses more affordable for students. By choosing an open textbook instead of a commercial textbook, for example, faculty can potentially save students hundreds of dollars a semester.<\/p>\n

Another benefit for faculty is that OER are openly licensed, which means that faculty can revise, remix, and build upon the content, customizing the material to meet the needs of their particular class. There are many tools available to help identify OER, like the Open Textbook Library<\/a> and OER Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To mark Open Education Week, Temple University Libraries will be offering the following virtual activities:<\/p>\n

Copyright and Creative Commons Licenses Workshop
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