Open educational resources News Archive
Libraries
The Future is Open: Director of world’s largest OER publisher to speak at UM
February 10, 2025 —
This Open Education Week, March 7-11, 2025, the University of Manitoba will be hosting an event featuring keynote speaker Richard Baraniuk, Director of OpenStax, the world’s largest open educational resource (OER) publisher, and professor of computer and electrical engineering at Rice University.
Libraries
Educators make resources open and free for students
October 17, 2024 —
Now in its second year, the Advance Open Ed project with UM Libraries is providing grants and practical support for faculty who want to create and adapt open educational resources for use in the classroom. Here are two resources already being used by students.
Libraries
Reflections of amiskwaciy: Indigenous protocols in open education
February 20, 2024 —
6 R’s of Indigenous OER provides an Indigenous-focused framework for incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into openly-licensed teaching and learning materials.