OER WORKSHOPS SPRING 2019

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SPRING 2019: OER WORKSHOPS AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

 

All OER workshops will be held in MC 205, on the second floor of the University Library.

Minnesota State OER Symposium will be in Centennial Hall 111.

All members of the campus community are welcome to attend.

Subscribe and contribute to the OER blog: http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/OER/

 

Mon Feb 18, 3 pm – 4 pm: Creative Commons

  • Find out how Creative Commons helps students, artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, teachers, and researchers of all disciplines.

 

 

Tue Feb 26, 2 pm – 3 pm: Introduction to OER Publishing

  • Where, how, and why to create, publish, and disseminate OERs.

 

 

Tue Mar 12, 11 am – 12 pm: Free CC Licensed, and Public Domain Media

  • Stay legal! Where to find—and how to cite–awesome images, photos, music, and videos that you have the right to use in presentations and publications.

 

 

Thu Mar 21: 11 am – 1 pm, Centennial Hall 111: Minnesota State OER Symposium

  • A system-wide conversation organized by the Minnesota State Educational Innovations team about how to advance open educational resources and affordable textbooks on your campus.

 

 

Tue Mar 26, 2 pm – 3 pm: First Steps to OER: Creating a Wikipedia Entry

  • Examples of how the world uses Wikipedia as a teaching tool. You can too!

 

 

Wed Apr 10, 3 pm – 4 pm: Should I Publish in Open Repositories?

  • Maximize your audience! Explore publishing options for research, presentations, and creative works.

 

 

Mon Apr 15, 3 pm – 4 pm, How to Publish OER: My First Steps

  • Brainstorm your ideas, plan and select a platform to publish.

 

 

For more information about the program schedule, please contact

Rachel Wexelbaum, Collection Management Librarian, at rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu

Plamen Miltenoff, InforMedia Specialist, at pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu

SideStreet February 2019

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thank you for stopping by at our table. Please let us know, if you need more information.
We will see you next time; please “visit” us virtually – we stream live

 

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Spring Semester OER workshops at SCSU

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SPRING 2019: OER WORKSHOPS AT THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

All OER workshops will be held in MC 205, on the second floor of the University Library.

All members of the campus community are welcome to attend.

Subscribe and contribute to the OER blog: http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/OER/

Mon Feb 18, 3 pm – 4 pm: Creative Commons

  • Find out how Creative Commons helps students, artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, teachers, and researchers of all disciplines.

Tue Feb 26, 2 pm – 3 pm: Introduction to OER Publishing

  • Where, how, and why to create, publish, and disseminate OERs.

Tue Mar 12, 11 am – 12 pm: Free CC Licensed, and Public Domain Media

  • Stay legal! Where to find—and how to cite–awesome images, photos, music, and videos that you have the right to use in presentations and publications.

Thu Mar 21: SAVE THE DATE: Minn State OER Symposium—information TBA

  • A system-wide conversation organized by the Minnesota State Educational Innovations team about how to advance open educational resources and affordable textbooks on your campus.

Tue Mar 26, 2 pm – 3 pm: First Steps to OER: Creating a Wikipedia Entry

  • Examples of how the world uses Wikipedia as a teaching tool. You can too!

Wed Apr 10, 3 pm – 4 pm: Should I Publish in Open Repositories?

  • Maximize your audience! Explore publishing options for research, presentations, and creative works.

Mon Apr 15, 3 pm – 4 pm, How to Publish OER: My First Steps

  • Brainstorm your ideas, plan and select a platform to publish.

Please contact Rachel Wexelbaum, Collection Management Librarian, at rswexelbaum@stcloudstate.edu
and Plamen Miltenoff, InforMedia Specialist, at pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
for more information about the program schedule.

sort the good from the bad in K12 OER

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

Online resources are overflowing, but reliable means to evaluate them and help teachers use them are rare

How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The need for reliable evaluation has become more urgent with the flood of new, often free, online materials.

a few OER sources provide teacher support (aka professional development) in their offerings. Among them: 
UnboundEd, a nonprofit created to continue the work of the Engage NY curriculum developers; 
Open Up Resources, a nonprofit whose K-5 English Language Arts curriculum and middle-school math curriculum have both received top ratings from 
EdReports, an evaluator; 
Great Minds, which makes the highly popular Eureka Math curriculum, and
IBM Watson’s Teacher Advisor

The Learning Commons, a new, free website that will gather curated professional development resources

Both the federal Department of Education and ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) also offer information about quality resources on their respective websites.

Open Textbook Library and Open Textbook Network (OTN)

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The Open Textbook Network (OTN) “promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks”.  Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is a member of this network.  Check out what support resources we have as OTN members!

1. Earn $200 for reviewing an open textbook.  OTN offers free webinars to teach faculty about the Open Textbook Library, where you can pick a book and write a brief review for $200.  Click on one of the Spring 2019 dates to register for that day (all are on 2:30-4 pm) : Mon 1/28, Wed 3/27, Fri 5/20.

2. Sign up to learn about new open textbooks here.

3. Join the OTN Google Group to discuss topics around open textbooks, OERs, and Z degrees: open-textbook-network@googlegroups.com 

 

Beware of Predatory Journals!

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Colleagues: Have you received any emails from publishers that just don’t seem legit?

Jeffrey Beall provides definitions of predatory journals and predatory open access publishing here.  In 2008, Beall had started to generate and publish a list of predatory publishers to alert faculty to scammers, and received assistance from Cabell’s.  In 2017, Beall was forced to take down the list.

An anonymous group, “Stop Predatory Journals”, has taken Beall’s old list and updated it to provide a list of predatory publishers and predatory journals. They also provide some basic criteria for identifying a potential predatory publisher.

So–have you received any emails from publishers that just don’t seem legit?  What did you do about it, and how can we help?  Please share your experiences (as well as the names of those predatory publishers or journals) below–you will help out your colleagues by doing so!

(Thank you to SCSU librarian Cindy Gruwell for bringing this back to our attention, with those new updated lists!)