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Book covers of open history textbooks Origins and Destinies by Robert A. Wardhaugh and Alan MacEachern.

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New UM publishing platform makes sharing research online easy

June 13, 2025 — 
The University of Manitoba Libraries is now accepting proposals for publishing on its new open digital publishing platform, eScholarship.  

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Libraries

Apply now for funding to create free educational resources

May 23, 2025 — 
UM Libraries is providing funding to help faculty, instructors, and librarians create, adapt, and/or adopt an open educational resource (OER).

Manitoba Open Education Symposium Open Horizons: Affordability and Access through Open Education

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Impact the future of education in Manitoba at Manitoba’s first Open Education Symposium

April 30, 2025 — 
The Manitoba Open Education Symposium is a free two-day event with panels, discussions and talks by leaders in open education in Canada. The event is hosted at the University of Manitoba, and is open to faculty, instructors, students and open education advocates in Manitoba and beyond. 

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Different kind of activities possible with the H5P plugin in Pressbooks including quizzes, charts, audio recordings and more

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Build interactivity into your courses with new Pressbooks, H5P UM Learn integration

April 23, 2025 — 
Pressbooks, an open-source platform that can be used for developing instructional content, is now easier than ever to integrate into UM Learn.  

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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. 

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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.

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Kayla Lar-Son photo presenting for Advance Open Ed speaker series.

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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.

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