2023 Open Education Week Celebration at SPU

Seo, Grace (Educational Tech & Library)/ February 23, 2023/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

International Open Education (OE) Week is here at SPU! ETM and the Library are hosting an OE event (a conversation on open and affordable textbooks) to celebrate the open education efforts at SPU. Research As part of the celebration at SPU, ETM’s associate director, Dr. Grace Seo, presented her recently completed dissertation research: Sustaining Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives in

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Seven C’s from the Winter Academy 2021-2022

Robertson, R. John/ February 18, 2022/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

CommunityHow is community fostered in the program? In individual courses? Outside of the courses?What are students expecting to get out of their program community?What types of students will participate and drive the community?How can students slip through the cracks of community, and how can we patch those cracks?CollegialityWhat other voices are allowed input into the program design?Who can I run

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Reflecting on our OER Grants process

Robertson, R. John/ December 3, 2021/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Kristen Hoffman and I are running a series of small OER or open text grants for SPU faculty (and staff). We’re really excited about the projects that we have underway with faculty from a huge range of departments. We’ll have more to say but as a point of reference this was the application format we used. We’ll continue to issue

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