In our August 2021 webinar, three speakers presented on grant projects that are currently underway. All three grants were obtained using federal CARES Act funding, through the Iowa GEER Fund … Continue reading Webinar Summary: Securing Special Funding for OER

As we prepare for the fall semester, Iowa OER is once again pleased to announce a webinar and group discussion for faculty and staff in the state of Iowa who … Continue reading Don’t miss out! August Webinar on Securing Funding for OER

This month’s Resource Highlight blog post was contributed by Kevin Engel, Science Librarian at Grinnell College. As a relative newcomer to the OER world, I had the initial impression that … Continue reading July 2021 Iowa OER Resource Highlight: Open Textbooks For Information Literacy

This month’s Resource Highlight was contributed by April Pforts, State Supervisor of Mathematics for the Iowa Department of Education.  Last August, some courses were made freely available online for Iowa … Continue reading June 2021 Iowa OER Resource Highlight: Iowa e-Learning Central

This month’s Resource Highlight was contributed by Rebecca S. Funke, Director of Library Resources at Des Moines Area Community College.  This month, we are featuring two resources that are useful … Continue reading May 2021 Iowa OER Resource Highlight: Attribution Resources

Jessica Kirschner (Virginia Commonwealth University), Rebel Cummings-Sauls (The Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative), and Nathan Smith (Houston Community College) discussed their work related to course markings for OER, both at … Continue reading Webinar Summary: Course Marking for OER with Out-of-State Guest Speakers

This month's Resource Highlight was contributed by Mahrya Burnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Iowa. Conversations around OER are often centered on the money that open textbooks save … Continue reading April 2021 Resource Highlight: Open Pedagogy Notebook

On April 9th, Iowa OER hosted a webinar with multiple faculty members from the University of Iowa. Lucia Gemmani, Irene Lottini, Claudia Sartini-Rideout, and Giovanni Zimotti joined us to discuss … Continue reading Webinar Summary: OER for Language Learners with University of Iowa Faculty

This blog post was contributed by Theresa Umscheid, Executive Director of the Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium. The past year’s rapid shift to more online classrooms has challenged faculty to … Continue reading March 2021 Resource Highlight: Interactive Science Labs with LabXchange

On March 9, 2021, Iowa OER held a webinar featuring Dr. Evrim Baran, Associate Professor of Educational Technology in the School of Education at Iowa State University. Dr. Baran teaches … Continue reading Webinar Summary: Open Pedagogy with Evrim Baran