{"id":888,"date":"2022-02-23T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/?p=888"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:38:39","slug":"temple-university-celebrates-open-education-week-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/scholarlycommunication\/2022\/02\/23\/temple-university-celebrates-open-education-week-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple University Celebrates Open Education Week 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Temple University Libraries is celebrating <\/span>Open Education Week<\/span><\/a> from March 7-11, 2022. Open Education Week is an annual celebration designed to raise awareness about open educational resources and practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What are Open Educational Resources and Practices?<\/b><\/p>\n

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are free to read and reuse. Examples of OER include videos, images, lab activities, homework assignments, and textbooks. Open educational practices — also known as open pedagogy — use OER to support learning and invite students to be active participants in the teaching and learning environment, engaging in knowledge creation and sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faculty across Temple\u2019s schools and colleges are using OER in their classes. Faculty often assign OER in order to make their course materials more affordable for students. By choosing an open textbook instead of a commercial textbook, faculty can save students hundreds of dollars a semester.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Another benefit for faculty is that OER are openly licensed, which means that faculty can revise, remix, and build upon the content created by others, customizing the material to meet the needs of their particular class. This can aid in bringing about a more culturally responsive teaching and learning experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many tools available to help identify OER, like the <\/span>Open Textbook Library<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>OER Commons<\/span><\/a>. Temple faculty can also use <\/span>Temple\u2019s Open and Affordable Learning Materials Inventory<\/span><\/a> to see <\/span>w<\/span>hich faculty members are already using OER and other zero-cost learning materials in place of traditional commercial textbooks as well as obtain suggestions for affordable learning materials to adopt. Only Temple faculty\/staff can view the Inventory; it is not available to the general public.<\/span><\/p>\n

Open Education Week Events & Activities<\/b><\/p>\n

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

Contest<\/b><\/p>\n