This blog post is a book review of an open text book from OpenStax by Simona Marincean, assistant professor of Chemistry at UM-Dearborn. Open Educational Resources (OER) are publicly accessible materials created purposely to be… Read More »Book Review: OpenStax McMurry Organic Chemistry
I teach a variety of writing classes–comp 105 and 106, Intro to Creative Writing, upper-level essay writing–but I haven’t used an official textbook in years. I tend to “curate” syllabi around whole-course themes and/or break… Read More »Open Pedagogies in Writing and Statistics
In 2021, with the help of student collaborators, Ben Wielechowski created the Open Educational Resources (OER) textbook, Introduction to Narrative Journalism. Wielechowski and some of his students are featured in the recent Wolverzine, a campus… Read More »Students as OER Partners
At the end of the Spring 2023, there was a virtual faculty panel about Open Education Resources (OER) with campus faculty. Six faculty members from UM-Dearborn shared their experiences applying for OER grants, writing OER… Read More »OER Faculty Panel
I have been researching Open Education (OE) textbooks and resources for teaching an upper-level essay/creative nonfiction class, and when starting to look for available texts, I imagined I might find something I could use that… Read More »On Teaching Essay Writing: a landscape of Open Education Resources
Did you know that you can get paid to learn about, find, review, adopt, and even create Open Educational Resources (OER)? It can often be hard to find the time and support to research OER… Read More »Have you heard about the Open Education Grants available for faculty and staff?
As part of my journey to learn more about Open Educational Resources, I turned to the videos available online from the 2021 Open Education Conference. I clicked around a bit, and I encourage you to… Read More »Open Education: Some Insights and Resources from the 2021 OE Conference
Estimated reading time: 5-6 minutes During the summer and fall of 2021 I was fortunate to participate in the UM-Ann Arbor CRLT LEO program focused on teaching for equity and inclusion. During the fall semester,… Read More »From Teaching for Equity & Inclusion to Reflecting on OER
By: Tim Constant Tim is an Instructional Coach for Secondary Education at Clarenceville School District in Livonia, Michigan and currently a doctoral student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is a former school administrator and… Read More »How Open Education Provides Opportunity to Historically Marginalized Communities
One of the neat things to come out of my Hub affiliateship is Autumm gently pushing me to finish a project I started a few summers ago and then unceremoniously dropped: an open source worksheet… Read More »Making Calculus Group Work Easier: Worksheet Generator!