September 2021 Resource Highlight: Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

16 Sep 202116 Sep 2021

This month’s Resource Highlight was contributed by Anne Marie Gruber, Instruction & Liaison Librarian at University of Northern Iowa. Our December 2020 blog post highlighted the OASIS metafinder and mentioned…

Webinar Summary: Securing Special Funding for OER

16 Aug 2021

In our August 2021 webinar, three speakers presented on grant projects that are currently underway. All three grants were obtained using federal CARES Act funding, through the Iowa GEER Fund…

Don’t miss out! August Webinar on Securing Funding for OER

10 Aug 202110 Aug 2021

As we prepare for the fall semester, Iowa OER is once again pleased to announce a webinar and group discussion for faculty and staff in the state of Iowa who…

July 2021 Iowa OER Resource Highlight: Open Textbooks For Information Literacy

16 Jul 202116 Jul 2021

This month’s Resource Highlight blog post was contributed by Kevin Engel, Science Librarian at Grinnell College. As a relative newcomer to the OER world, I had the initial impression that…

June 2021 Iowa OER Resource Highlight: Iowa e-Learning Central

14 Jun 2021

This month’s Resource Highlight was contributed by April Pforts, State Supervisor of Mathematics for the Iowa Department of Education.  Last August, some courses were made freely available online for Iowa…

May 2021 Iowa OER Resource Highlight: Attribution Resources

18 May 2021

This month’s Resource Highlight was contributed by Rebecca S. Funke, Director of Library Resources at Des Moines Area Community College.  This month, we are featuring two resources that are useful…

Webinar Summary: Course Marking for OER with Out-of-State Guest Speakers

29 Apr 202129 Apr 2021

Jessica Kirschner (Virginia Commonwealth University), Rebel Cummings-Sauls (The Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative), and Nathan Smith (Houston Community College) discussed their work related to course markings for OER, both at…

April 2021 Resource Highlight: Open Pedagogy Notebook

23 Apr 202120 Apr 2021

This month's Resource Highlight was contributed by Mahrya Burnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Iowa. Conversations around OER are often centered on the money that open textbooks save…

Webinar Summary: OER for Language Learners with University of Iowa Faculty

16 Apr 202119 Apr 2021

On April 9th, Iowa OER hosted a webinar with multiple faculty members from the University of Iowa. Lucia Gemmani, Irene Lottini, Claudia Sartini-Rideout, and Giovanni Zimotti joined us to discuss…

March 2021 Resource Highlight: Interactive Science Labs with LabXchange

22 Mar 2021

This blog post was contributed by Theresa Umscheid, Executive Director of the Iowa Community Colleges Online Consortium. The past year’s rapid shift to more online classrooms has challenged faculty to…