Because of extra time at home and low stock at grocery stores, social distancing has created more home cooks than ever. Did you know that Milne has a whole ebook collection of local cookbooks in our Geneseo Valley Historical Reprints series? Try your hand at historical classics like election cakes (Genesee Valley Cook Book p 71) floating islands (Golden Links Cookbook, p 49), or something called “Curly Peters” (Contributed Recipes, p 6).
In the COVID-19 crisis, Open has been in education news, largely related to limited-time free access to various tools and platforms. One of the most prominent stories has been the creation of the National Emergency Library by Archive.org, with the suspension of waitlisting for many of its books. Others, like Springer Publishing, are making their open access materials more easily discoverable.
Continue reading “Open in the News”Open Science is a collaborative movement that works to share research activities with few barriers, so researchers in relevant fields can evaluate, replicate, adapt, reuse, and modify the work. One of the principles of Open Science is Open Educational Resources, in large part due to OER giving access to cutting-edge scientific research.
Continue reading “OER using Open Science framework”OASIS is an search tool built by Milne Library to help eliminate barriers to finding relevant OER materials. Visit OASIS at oasis.geneseo.edu to discover OER through a collection of 385,000 items from 97 different sources.
At Geneseo, many instructors use OER in their classrooms. The shift to online and distance learning during the COVID-19 crisis resulted in instructors relying more heavily—if not exclusively— on online resources.
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