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The latest episode of the Speaking of Open podcast is out! Ash and Mais chat with Dr. Julian Pakay from La Trobe University about ‘What can Open Education do that AI can’t?’ The Speaking of Open podcast highlights educators in Australasian higher ed who are making an impact in the open education field. You can find the show on YouTube, Spotify, and Podcast Index.

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New OER on AI Literacy

The University of Virginia is excited to announce a new open educational resource on our Pressbooks platform: Fostering AI Literacy: A Guide for Educators in Higher Education, by Fang Yi, Jess Taggart, and Bethany Mickel.This resource was developed as part of a Virginia cross-institutional Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project on AI in teaching and learning.According to the authors, “Our OER represents a collaborative effort to empower educators with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to effectively integrate AI in higher education. By leveraging the benefits of open education and embracing a research-informed approach, we aim to support instructors in harnessing the transformative potential of AI to enhance student learning outcomes and foster innovation in teaching and scholarship.”...

New OER from University of Iowa

Teaching Nonfiction Writing by Bonnie S. Sunstein and Jessie KraemerThis newly published resource includes syllabi and other teaching resources for teachers (or curious learners) of creative nonfiction writing. This Pressbook will be regularly updated with new material for educators in an ever-evolving genre....

New Publication: Searching for Wonder

Mary Isbell recently launched Searching for Wonder, an openly licensed book designed to help educators create courses where students choose their own texts, priming them to have more personal, powerful, and transformative encounters with literature. Developed over the past year and refined through an open peer review process last spring, the book offers practical strategies to move beyond traditional accountability techniques and give students greater autonomy in their reading. Mary is planning another revision for next summer to incorporate courses, assignments, and student projects from colleagues who pilot these methods in their own classrooms. Educators are invited to explore the strategies, adapt them for their own teaching, and share their experiences by emailing Mary at misbell@newhaven.edu.Summary:Students aren't reading what we assign despite quizzes, collaborative annotation assignments, and other accountability techniques. But students will read if we give them more autonomy. The resources gathered in this book will help you do that. They'll help you create a course where your students select their own texts, priming them to have more personal, powerful, and transformative encounters with literature....

New OER: Elements of Creative Writing (2nd edition)

University of Northern Iowa's Rod Library has published a new OER edition, Elements of Creative Writing (2nd edition) by Grant Tracey, Rachel Morgan, and Jeremy Schraffenberger, along with many talented contributors. This book is a revised edition of a 2023 book which has been adopted at more than a dozen colleges & universities. This update includes several new topics and additional writings from the North American Review (NAR), the oldest and one of the most well-regarded literary magazines in the U.S., published at UNI. The authors also serve as editors of the NAR, so their insight about creative writing comes from a unique perspective....

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