The Iowa Open Education Action Team is excited to announce our third annual call for participation for our OER Communities of Practice! The purpose of these communities of practice (CoPs) … Continue reading Call for Participation: 2024/2025 OER Communities of Practice

This month’s blog post was contributed by Christine Whitney, Librarian & Media Specialist at Des Moines Area Community College.  One of the significant benefits of OER adoption is the opportunity … Continue reading June 2024 Resource Highlight: Trans Inclusion in OER

This month’s blog post was contributed by Mahrya Burnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Iowa. Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge, edited by Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, and Will … Continue reading May 2024 Resource Highlight: Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge

Many librarians and others who support OER initiatives do not have "Open Education" explicitly mentioned in their job descriptions. This situation can make it difficult to figure out how our … Continue reading April 2024 Resource Highlight: OER Duties in Job Descriptions

This month’s blog post was contributed by Shannon Brenner, Instructional Designer & Adjunct Faculty at Northeast Iowa Community College. If you work in education, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has likely become … Continue reading March 2024 Resource Highlight: AI & OER, a Perfect Pair?

When we imagine an Open Educational Resources (OER), many people tend to think about things like OpenStax textbooks: open textbooks aligned to a general education course, something that has a … Continue reading February 2024 Resource Highlight: A Photographic Atlas for Botany

This month’s blog post was contributed by Pam Rees, Director of the Library at Grand View University. Pressbooks recently released their most-viewed publications for 2023, a list which highlights the … Continue reading January 2024 Resource Highlight: College Success

This month's blog post was contributed by Debra Lowman, Associate Dean of Library and Learning Resources at Eastern Iowa Community College As advocates for OER, we know that OER is … Continue reading November 2023 Highlight: OER Bridges the Gap for Western Civ Instruction

This month’s Resource Highlight was contributed by Anne Marie Gruber, Liaison & Textbook Equity Librarian at University of Northern Iowa. Manifold is an open-source software supported by Cast Iron Coding, … Continue reading October 2023 Resource Highlight: Manifold Authoring Software

By Jenni Breems, Director of Library Services, Dordt University In 2021-2022, the Iowa Private Academic Libraries Open Educational Resources Project (IPAL OER Project) used grant funding to promote the adoption … Continue reading Institutional Considerations for OER