Celebrate Open Education Week, March 7-11

Open Education Week (OE Week) is an annual celebration and an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.

From March 7-11, 2022, participate and engage in global Open Education activities, and don’t forget, to use OE Global Connect to build and support your asynchronous activities.

Open Education Week was launched in 2012 by Open Education Global as a collaborative, community-built open forum. Every year OE Week raises awareness and highlights innovative open education successes worldwide. OE Week provides practitioners, educators, and students with an opportunity to build a greater understanding of open educational practices and be inspired by the wonderful work being developed by the community around the world.  Some examples of Open Education include:

Open Educational Resources: Educational texts and other resources that are made by faculty or educators and are shared with others for free with a Creative Commons License.

• Open Anthology of Iowa's Literature (OAIL) by Phillip Jones, Grinnell College Humanities Librarian and Coordinator of Research Services and Grinnell students Tara Rawlings '23, and Alexander Sun '23. This scholarly project emerged from the tutorial Phil Jones has taught twice entitled Far from Flyover: The Literature of Iowa.  While preparing this class in the summer of 2018, Mr. Jones discovered that no collection of Iowa’s literature is available in a single volume appropriate for classroom use.  Also at this time, he learned that Iowa’s history is included in the state’s core educational standards for secondary social studies.  Over the past summer, Mr. Jones worked on a MAP with students Tara Rawlings and Alexander Sun focused on Iowa’s literature and the creation of an online anthology, now titled Open Anthology of Iowa’s Literature (OAIL).  His students researched and wrote chapters for the project, exploring the lives of women and immigrants in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries as depicted in two novels written by native Iowans.  And to bring this first installment of the OAIL to the attention of Iowa’s social studies community, his summer MAP students and he gave a peer-reviewed presentation in early October 2021 at the Iowa Council for the Social Studies Conference in West Des Moines. 
• Open Text Library by the Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development. Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.

Open Online Courses: Sharing of course content using a Creative Commons License that removes financial barriers and allows for access from anywhere in the world. 

• Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.
• MIT Open Courseware is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
  • Women's and Gender Studies
• Digital Public Library of America's The Equal Rights Amendment

Open Access Materials: Materials including video, photos, worksheets, and more that are shared at no cost, usually with a Creative Commons License.