Tag: OER

  • 2016: The Year in OER at UW-Madison

    2016: The Year in OER at UW-Madison

    2016: The Year in OER at UW-Madison OER STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK On an institutional level, the big news at UW-Madison in 2016 was the publication of the Open Education Resources (OER) page and strategic framework (pdf) on the Educational Innovation (EI) website at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester (full disclosure: I was a co-author…

  • Core Principles for an eText Authoring Tool

    Core Principles for an eText Authoring Tool

    eText Authoring at UW-Madison About a year ago, I began thinking seriously about an eText authoring platform that could be used to write and publish openly-licensed texts. I work at a large research university in the American midwest, which means that a large percentage of my colleagues are engaged directly in both high-level academic research…