DeeAnn Ivie
DeeAnn Ivie (UTSA) is the OER Coordinator and Political Science Librarian at the UTSA Libraries at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She facilitates outreach to campus partners to support open educational resource (OER) adoption.
Feeds
Katie Steen-James
Katie Steen-James is the Manager of Public Policy & Advocacy at SPARC where she is responsible for promoting policy and coalition activities to advance SPARC’s commitment to making Open the default in research and education. In this role, she works with the entire SPARC team to develop SPARC’s policy goals and priorities, and leads the organization's implementation of federal and state advocacy strategies.
Nick Shockey
Nick Shockey (SPARC) is the Director of Programs & Engagement at SPARC, where he has worked since 2009. Nick works across SPARC to identify areas to better support member libraries, co-leads SPARC’s communities of practice related to negotiations and privacy and surveillance, manages SPARC’s digital platforms, and leads SPARC’s student and next generation-focused initiatives, organizing OpenCon and SPARC’s collaborations with the United Nations Library.
2023
The 2023 Open Access Symposium, "Navigating the New Open," will be a collaborative event between the University of North Texas Libraries and the Texas State University Libraries.
It will take place via Zoom on April 14, 2023, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Please save the date!
UNT Open Books publishes six new open textbooks
UNT Libraries recently published the sixth new open textbook to our UNT Open Books site!
• Ryan, Sarah E. (2022). Empirical Legal Research Services, University of North Texas Libraries, https://dx.doi.org/10.12794/sps.ot-legalresearch…
OER
Given the high cost of course materials, UNT supports the use of open educational resources (OER) at the university primarily through these two programs:
OER Grants still available!
The UNT Libraries is still accepting proposals for this year’s OER Grants program on a rolling basis for projects to be completed by December 15, 2022.
These grants support UNT faculty who do one or both of the following for a course that they expect to teach at UNT in the future:
recordings of presentations at 2022 UNT Open Access Symposium now available
Recordings of the presentations from “Open Educational Resources in Action”, the 2022 UNT Open Access Symposium, are now available on the symposium website.
2022
The 2022 UNT Open Access Symposium will take place during Open Education Week and will feature presentations by UNT faculty who have used open educational resources (OER) to teach courses at UNT.
When: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 • 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Central Time
Where: Willis Library, room 250H, and broadcast live over Zoom