News and notes from UND's Chester Fritz Library
Open Education (OE) Week (March 4-8) is an international event organized by the education nonprofit Open Education Global that highlights achievements and developments in the field. What is OE? Open Education is an innovative movement that seeks to reduce barriers to and within education. For many, this involves employing open education resources (OER) in order to ease […]
Are you interested in supporting student success by reducing the cost of textbooks? Do you have a passion for making information openly available? With generous support from Student Government, the University Senate OER Committee announces that the 2023 UND OER Grant application is open for submissions.
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In 2018 Chester Fritz Library adopted an Open Access Statement of Support, pledging to support open access in line with OneUND’s values of community, discovery, liberal arts, and lifelong learning. In service of this goal, we maintain UND’s open access institutional repository, the UND Scholarly Commons, as well as participate in administering UND’s OER grants as part of the […]
Categories: In and Around CFL, Library Events, Resources
Interested in Open Educational Resources (OERs) but not sure how to get started? The North Dakota University System is sponsoring two webinars on OERs during International Open Access Week (October 19-25)! Open Access Week is a time for the academic and research community to share information and learn more about Open Access. There’s still time to register for these events! OER Z-Degree […]
Categories: In and Around CFL, Notes from the Dean, Resources, Updates and Changes
UND faculty and staff have done amazing work with OERs. We started working with them in 2015; in just 4 years, we’ve saved our students a cumulative total of approximately $8.5 million! Now, we’re doing even more. Thanks to the efforts of our student government, each NDUS institution was eligible for up to $15,000 for […]