Open Educational Resources

Adopting Open Educational Resources as an Equity Strategy

Social determinants of learning (SDOL) impact students’ abilities to successfully complete their courses. An economic barrier for vulnerable students is the skyrocketing cost of textbooks. An innovative strategy to promote equity in educational …

Development of an open access, virtual bioinformatics lab for students in medical laboratory sciences

Objectives Despite the growing importance of bioinformatics in molecular diagnostics, not all medical laboratory sciences (MLS) programs provide instruction in this field. We developed and assessed a virtual laboratory learning unit to introduce …

Open Education Challenge Series

The OE Challenge is a learning resource of small doable activities you can work through at your own pace. The series is a fun way for educators to get a taste of  Open Education Practices (OEP) in micro-activities that you can do in 10 minutes or …

Open Educational Resources: Equitable and Affordable Nursing Education

This research report describes findings from a study conducted to learn students’ experiences using open educational resources (OER) in an online nursing research course. Twenty-three students participated in a pilot study in which traditional …

Open Pedagogy: how to engage your students and transform education

Education is not only about learning facts and skills but also about preparing students for active and successful participation in society. Traditional methods of teaching, however, may not always fully engage students or show them how their …

Open Resources for Biology Education (ORBE): a resource collection

In undergraduate life sciences education, open educational resources (OERs) increase accessibility and retention for students, reduce costs, and save instructors time and effort. Despite increasing awareness and utilization of these resources, OERs …

Plan E for Education: open access to educational materials created in publicly funded universities

Plan E for Education is my proposal that a proportion of the educational resources generated in publicly funded universities be made freely available for sharing and use by others. Thus, high quality education, produced through public funding, could …

Practical guides on open science for researchers in the Netherlands

A recently published series of open science guides help researchers in the Netherlands navigate open science. They cover topics such as pre-prints, open licenses, questionable publication practices (forthcoming) and how to apply open science in …

Resource lists overview for working with Open Educational Resources

The guidelines in this Library Guide give an in-depth, but limited first look at how you can find and engage with Open Educational Resources (OER). This section provides lists detailing where to find specific types of OER, tools you can use to create …

Universities should put educational materials online and make them free

Plan E for Education is my proposal that a proportion of the educational resources generated in publicly funded universities be made freely available for sharing and use by others. This would be the educational equivalent of initiatives that require …