Review these suggestions for how you can continue to learn more about open education and become a faculty advocate for this work.
In collaboration with Faculty Peer Advisor Coordinator Natalie Flynn, Earth and Environmental Sciences, we invite faculty from across the disciplines to join our peer OER advisors group. Peers meet with faculty who are interested in learning more about using OER and other zero-cost materials to eliminate or reduce the cost of cost materials for students. Temple University librarians provide support with training and education, finding OER and other zero-cost materials in any subject area. If you are interested in learning more about becoming a peer advisor, contact Natalie Flynn or Steven Bell.
Sign up to receive Temple University Libraries’ quarterly newsletter, Owls for OpenEd, focused on Temple-specific OER news, upcoming learning opportunities, and open education news and research.
Subscribe to the OER Digest, a monthly newsletter aimed at OER advocates in the United States and Canada focused on open education updates, opportunities, and reminders.
Check out Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), a consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources. Subscribe to their listserv for practical ideas and suggestions and search their archives for past discussion topics.
Check out Rebus Community, a global community working together to create and share OER. Here you’ll find people, processes, and tools to support your open publishing efforts.
Check out the Open Education Global (OE Global), a non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations. Here you’ll find people, ideas, newsletters, and podcasts focused on advancing open education globally.
Submit a proposal focused on textbook affordability and/or open education-related topics to Temple’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching’s Annual Faculty Conference on Teaching Excellence.
Attend and/or submit a proposal to a regional conference like the Northeast OER Summit.
Attend and/or submit a proposal to a state-specific virtual event like Open Texas, Florida OER Summit, CAL OER, or OpenCon Ohio.
Attend and/or submit a proposal to a national conference like Open Education Conference or Textbook Affordability Conference.
Attend and/or submit a proposal to the international OE Global Conference.
Submit a manuscript to peer-reviewed journals focused on open education topics, like The Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE), Open Praxis, International Journal of Open Educational Resources (IJOER), and Open Education Studies.
Submit a manuscript to peer-reviewed journals focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning, like Teaching & Learning Inquiry (TLI), College Teaching, and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning.
Write a review of an open textbook for the Open Textbook Library
Submit a proposal to North Broad Press, a joint publishing project between Temple University Press and Temple University Libraries, to author an open textbook in your field of study.
Apply to participate in the Open Education Network’s Certificate in Open Pedagogy, an annual professional development experience. Fees associated.
Register to participate in the Creative Commons Certificate program, CC Certificate for Educators, a 10-week online asynchronous course. Fees associated.
Reach out to your subject librarian or specialist with questions related to open education.
Apply for the Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) grant award. This application opens every spring semester.
Advocate for use of open and affordable learning materials within your department/collegial curriculum committees.
Conduct an OER audit in your department to see where OER is being used.
Already using OER or other zero-cost materials? Add them to our Temple Affordable and Open Learning Materials Inventory. Temple faculty are able to log in and add records to this inventory. Or just visit the inventory to explore other faculty using OER at Temple University.
Consider volunteering to serve on the University Textbook Task Force.
Mentor a Temple colleague on issues surrounding open and affordable education.
Connect with other current or former TAP grant awardees for possible collaborations.
Share your teaching and learning materials (e.g. syllabi, assignments, ancillary materials, etc.) in an open repository, like Temple University’s TUScholarShare, MERLOT, or OER Commons, with a Creative Commons license.
Identify conferences within your own discipline and submit a proposal for panels and/or events focused on open educational teaching practices.
Identify journals within your discipline and submit a manuscript for a paper focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning with OER.
