Textbooks are a helpful tool for teaching course material. However, they are not easily customizable to match course learning objectives and tend to be expensive (so expensive that some students cannot or will not buy them). This workshop will focus on opportunities faculty have to transform teaching and learning by leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) and licensed library resources. OER are "teaching, learning, and research resources which reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge" (http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources). OER are being adopted, adapted and created by faculty for a wide variety reasons, including student affordability, learning resource customization, and experimentation with open pedagogy/authentic assessment (shifting student engagement from consumption of facts to contribution of knowledge.)

This interactive workshop will present the case for OER, research on OER, how and why various faculty use OER (and other at-no-additional-cost-to-students), and explore several potential ways to implement open educational resources in your courses.

*Participants are requested to bring a web enabled laptop or tablet, a list of course objectives, and information about their currently assigned textbooks and software.

Presenter: Anita Walz

Register at http://www.cideronline.org/events/events2.cfm

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Location:	The Inn at Virginia Tech
Price:	Free, registration required
Sponsor:	Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER)
Contact:	Tiffany Shoop tshoop@vt.edu 540-231-0785
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