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American Immigration and Refugee Policy Throughout the Holocaust
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2020-03-19)
Guest speaker Kathryn Perry Walters discusses American immigration policy throughout the Holocaust, specifically focusing on refugee practices. The United States government’s role in the Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 1930s ...
What Savvy Open Scholars Know and Do
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2017-12-05)
An open scholar’s work can be accessed and read earlier, and by more people. It can be quickly cited and built upon, and is more likely to have impact. Open access doesn’t require paying hefty author fees: savvy scholars ...
Open Educational Practices: Equity, Achievement, and Pedagogical Innovation
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-19)
Open Education practices (OEP) have emerged as a transformational force in higher education. Whereas, higher education promises to be an instrument for economic and social mobility, in reality our institutions reinforce ...
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 ...
You Want Me to Pay What? Student Perspectives on Learning Costs
(Virginia Tech, 2017-11-28)
"You Want Me to Pay What?" is a Student Government Association (SGA) student-led event. The event was designed by and for students to start a conversation about the cost of learning resources at Virginia Tech.
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, ...
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, ...
Read Out Loud: Escaping the Nazis
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2020-04-06)
Reading Out Loud: Escaping the Nazis features readings from Ruth Wolman’s Crossing Over: An Oral History of Refugees from Hitler’s Reich and Michael Dobbs’ The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz and a Village Caught In Between. ...
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, ...
Faculty & Student Panel Discussion: Issues in Course Materials Access and Use
(Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2020-03-03)
Faculty and student panelists will discuss the interplay of issues such as equity, cost, persistent access, customization, and pedagogical affordances in relation to open course materials, as well as implications for career ...