+Open Educational Resources (OERs)

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Presentation from Open Access Week 2022, 10-24-2022 presented by Librarians Mary Ann Cullen & Charlene Martoni.
The benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER) go beyond cost savings to students! In this session, two librarians will discuss how adopting, adapting, authoring, and assigning OpenStax textbooks and other OER contribute to student success for all students, especially students who frequently experience obstacles to success. In addition to equalizing textbook costs, OER can be adapted to student needs or course content and incorporate diverse voices and perspectives. Open Pedagogy assignments can allow students to express their own voices as well as engage them in meaningful assignments in which they learn about finding high-quality sources and using information ethically and legally.

From Open Access Week 2022, Presented by Librarian Lauren Bellard
You might have heard about the Creative Commons and its associated licenses, but in this session, we'll dive deeper into copyright, openly licensed materials, and how they relate to Open Education Resources.

From Open Access Week 2022, presented by Denise George
We'll discuss a brief history of preprints. We'll also talk about what it means for a journal to offer Green Open Access options. We'll discuss how pre print use has escalated over the last few decades and more recently with COVID-19. We’ll look at several preprint platforms and discuss benefits and risks in this rapidly growing landscape for scholarly communication.