Open Educational Practices

Are you ready to transform your teaching? Open Educational Practices (OEP) empower educators to rethink how learning happens—through collaboration, creativity, and openness. Whether you're co-creating assignments with students, experimenting with openly licensed technologies, or diving into Creative Commons licensing, OEP offers a bold path forward.

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Open Educational Practices include

Innovative teaching techniques using open technologies
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Pedagogies that support flexible, inclusive, and collaborative learning

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Teaching with Open Education Resources

Teaching with Open Educational Resources (OER) introduces the knowledge and skills to effectively integrate OER into your teaching practice. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to make informed decisions about using, adapting, and creating open resources that enhance student learning and promote educational equity.

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Animate Your Lesson with IDEAS Video Production Team

Selected faculty will work 1:1 with our Animation Specialist to shape your idea, write a script, and film it—then we’ll handle the animation. Your video will become an Open Educational Resources (OER) that anyone at UMass or beyond can utilize. UMass is building a collection of great, repurposable teaching materials and we want yours to be part of it. Whether your lesson topic stems from your own cutting edge research or is a basic 101 explainer, please consider submitting an application.

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Northeast OER Summit

The Summit is a virtual event for new and experienced Open Education Resource advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.

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Featured Articles

A collection of featured news articles and resources specifically focusing on Open Education Practices at IDEAS.

Inclusive by Design: Faculty Reflections on Access and Accessibility Inclusive by Design: Faculty Reflections on Access and Accessibility Beyond the Lecture: Designing Student-Centered Courses with AI and Collaboration Beyond the Lecture: Designing Student-Centered Courses with AI and Collaboration Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Sravan Surampudi Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Sravan Surampudi Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Rosa Moscarella - Department of Biology, College of Natural Science Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Rosa Moscarella - Department of Biology, College of Natural Science The Practice of Open Pedagogy: A Campus Partnership The Practice of Open Pedagogy: A Campus Partnership From Access to Success: The Impact of Open Educational Resources From Access to Success: The Impact of Open Educational Resources Designing for Learning through OER, Assessment, and Student Support: Sixth Meeting of the Instructional Innovation Fellowship (IIF) Designing for Learning through OER, Assessment, and Student Support: Sixth Meeting of the Instructional Innovation Fellowship (IIF) Sharing is Caring: Understanding Creative Commons Sharing is Caring: Understanding Creative Commons