Teddy Gyamfi and Amanda Wentworth
Incorporating Open Educational Resources (OER) into classroom instruction allows students and faculty to search, publish, and share content to improve usability and fair opportunities. In its mission to promote OER and related open practices, the Open Services Committee (OSC) at SUNY Geneseo hosts several events throughout the academic year.
Open events and services provided by the OSC include:
- Open Access Week, typically held mid- to late-October.
- Open Ed Week, typically held at the beginning of March.
- Faculty Lightning Talks where the OSC invites Geneseo instructors who have had both challenges and success with incorporating OER and Open Pedagogy into their courses for other faculty to learn from their experiences, and to provide inspiration.
- Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) streamlines the OER search by providing instructors with one central location from which to identify, discover, and access Open material they can incorporate into their courses.
- Webinars and blog posts that inform the Geneseo community about current Open practices and activity at Geneseo. You’ll find our posts on the Fraser Hall (previously Milne) Library blog.
- Instructional help from liaison librarians for finding open educational materials on the web and incorporating open materials onto a LibGuide for your course.
- And….. this OER Symposium! This event is typically held exclusively at Geneseo each May. Traditionally held in-person, due to the pandemic, we began the OER Symposium virtual newsletter last year. The goal of this newsletter is to keep you (and us!) connected with each other and the latest news and information on OER in lieu of a face-to-face meet up.
For more information on how to get in touch with us, visit https://www.geneseo.edu/library/oer-services, and to learn more about Open Education at Geneseo, check out our Open Educational Resources for Faculty LibGuide.