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Open Education Symposium 2019 Keynote: Improving Access, Affordability, and Achievement with OER
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2019-03-04)
Despite the transformative power that technology has had in a whole range of businesses, the history of technology use in education over the last 100 years paints a rather bleak picture of the extent to which digital tools, ...
Textbook Town Hall: A Panel Discussion About Textbook Prices
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-16)
Virginia Tech Student Government Association (VTSGA) led this Textbook Town Hall to hear from students regarding issues and solutions related to textbooks and other learning resources.
Open Education Symposium Panel: Facilitating Openness at the University: Connecting the Opens + Making Change Happen
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2019-03-04)
This panel discussion begins with brief presentations of several “core open practices”: Open Access, Open Education/Open Educational Resources, and Open Data by experts from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. ...
Open Access Forum 2018
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-10-22)
The Open Access Week kickoff event will feature a brief introduction to open access by Peter Potter and an introduction to open education by Anita Walz, followed by a discussion with panelists Katya Drozdova, Karen DePauw, ...
Open Education Week 2017 Panel Discussion: The Potential of Open Educational Resources
Virginia Tech faculty members discuss their experiences as adopters, adapters, and authors of open educational resources. The panel explores use and creation of open textbooks and online course materials and systems, ...
Open Government Data in Virginia
(2015-02-20)
On Friday, February 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Waldo Jaquith will be speaking on "Open Government Data in Virginia" followed by an introduction to Open Data Day and CodeAcross in Newman Library's Multipurpose Room ...
Open Educational Resources: Institutional Costs and Benefits
(Virginia Tech, 2015-11-16)
What are Open Educational Resources? What are the costs and benefits to my institution of an OER initiative? What efforts are needed to get OER projects and programs started? How much do they cost and why? How can they be ...
Getting Comfortable Working in the Open: A Panel Discussion for Authors, Teaching Faculty, and Students
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-19)
Open Educational practices support teaching, learning, and publication in an increasingly diverse faculty and student body. OEP encompass the creation, adaptation, and adoption of open educational resources, open course ...
Connecting the Opens: Open Access, Open Education, Open Data
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-19)
Open practices represent opportunities to align scholarly and instructional processes with scholarly ideals, ethical stances, real work impacts, and aspirations for a more just and equitable world. There are many types of ...
Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness - Opening Ceremony
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2016-09-16)
This is the opening ceremony for the Native Voices exhibit.
The exhibit examines concepts of health and medicine among contemporary American Indian, Alaska native, and Native Hawai'ian people. The traveling exhibition, ...