TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast

Episode 82: Fostering Large Scale OER Adoption

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In this episode, Dr. Tanya Spilovoy joins hosts Tom and Kelvin to discuss the importance of faculty adoption of free or low-cost open educational resources (OER) at scale. This is an important part of lowering educational costs for students. Fostering widespread adoption initiatives is harder than it looks.

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Dr. Tanya Spilovoy and Dr. Thomas Cavanagh
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    • Content Links
    • Dr. Tanya Spilovoy’s Online Profile
    • Press Release: “Higher Education Compacts Come Together to Help Students Succeed with Open Educational Resources“
    • National Consortium of Open Educational Resources (NCOER)
    • WCET’s Resources on OER
    • Regional (US) Higher Education Compacts (in “Federalism in America” Encyclopedia)
    • SPARC: The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
    • SPARC’s Open Education Leadership Program
    • Video: Introduction to the [now decommissioned] Orange Grove Repository (circa 2010)
    • Open Textbook Library
    • OpenStax
    • Rebus Community
    • Book: “The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast”
    • Past TOPcast Episodes Related to OER
      • Topical Follow-up Resources Curated By Dr. Spilovoy
      • Press Release: “OER initiatives produce a measurable increase in faculty OER adoption.”
      • In Inside Higher Ed: “Window of Opportunity for OER”
      • Session Recording: “New Year, New NCOER Initiative (National Consortium for Open Educational Resources)”
      • Report: “Opening Public Institutions: OER in North Dakota and the Nation, 2015” (by Spilovoy and Seaman)
        • Extra Special Feature
        • Video Version of This Episode! (Includes “socially distanced” recording by Tom and Kelvin)
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