The Center for Faculty Development and the Campus Library would like to congratulate Tim Scales from the School of Business and Dr. Young You from the School of Natural Science and Mathematics for being awarded the Course Material Transformation Fellowship! This fellowship supports instructors in their efforts to adopt and create affordable course materials, including… Read more »
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Celebrating Open 2025: The CMT Fellowship
At the time of writing this blog, it is Open Education (OE) Week 2025. OE Week is a worldwide celebration held the first week of March that connects and inspires practitioners, educators, students, and communities that support and promote open educational practices. Open educational practices are teaching and learning methods that use open technologies and… Read more »
Expand Your Research: The Creative Commons Certificate
This past spring, Assistant Librarian of Access and Technical Services Beth South enrolled in the Creative Commons for Librarians certificate course with fellow librarian Peter Whiting from University of Southern Indiana and Instructional Designer Shannon Barnes from Earlham College. All three applied for a scholarship offered by Academic Libraries of Indiana’s (ALI) Affordable Learning Committee… Read more »
Love the Open: Data and Folklore
February is the month of “love” and besides Valentine’s Day, researchers and scholars can share their love of data and folklore. International Love Data Week (Feb. 12-16, 2024) and Wiki Loves Folklore (Feb. 1-March 31, 2024) share a common goal. Beth South, the IU East Access Services librarian, explains in this blog about various open… Read more »
Textbook Savings and Customized Teaching: The 2023-2024 Course Material Transformation Fellowship Award Winners
The Campus Library and the Center for Faculty Development have collaborated once again to offer the Course Material Transformation Fellowship for 2023-2024. This fellowship supports instructors in their efforts to adopt and create affordable course materials, including open educational resources (OER), library licensed content, and open access materials. The Fellowship Program aims to: Lower the… Read more »
Open Access 2023: Community over Commercialization
International Open Access Week is October 23-29 and the theme for 2023 is Community over Commercialization, raising awareness on the importance of communities having control of knowledge sharing systems so they can have access to the data and information they need to collectively fight climate change, inequality, and effectively enact public health policies. “Openness can… Read more »
Who Uses OER at IU East? — Open Education Week 2023
Due to the rising costs of higher education, textbook affordability is a particular area of hardship for many students. With limited funding, students may have to choose what is essential to their well-being and education and because of this, many students forgo buying required textbooks or other course material. This often results in poor grades… Read more »