Upcoming Events

Open Education Week 2025
03/03/2025 through 03/07/202

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It’s that time of year again... Open Education Week (OE Week)! Where OER programs across the world engage in activities to teach about open educational resources and all things open. The annual celebration, OE Week, is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.

Celebrate Open Education Week at UNM with the New Mexico OER Consortium. We have organized a slate of exciting and informative events to raise awareness of current initiatives and inspire visions of how OER could develop across the UNM system and across New Mexico.

Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Open Education Week: Open Textbook Review Workshop

📍 Online | Sign-up required

Explore open textbook solutions for your pedagogical needs by attending a free workshop facilitated by the Open Education Network. Higher education faculty in New Mexico are invited to a workshop where you will learn about open textbooks, where to find them, and the criteria that the OEN uses to evaluate the textbooks in their Open Textbook Library. Participants who attend the workshop will be eligible to review an open textbook and receive a $200 stipend. These OEN workshops have resulted in a 45% adoption rate by participating faculty.

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Open Mind and Open Education Workshop & Activity

📍 Zimmerman Library, B30 | No sign-up required

For Students and Faculty: Learn about OER, play a Creative Commons matching game, do crafts with old textbooks, and enjoy some snacks! We will talk about the basics of Open Educational Resources, benefits and examples of OER, open licenses and Creative Commons.

Thursday, March 06, 2025

Open Mind and Open Education Workshop & Activity

📍 Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room 105 | No sign-up required

For Students and Faculty: Learn about OER, play a Creative Commons matching game, do crafts with old textbooks, and enjoy some snacks! We will talk about the basics of Open Educational Resources, benefits and examples of OER, open licenses and Creative Commons.

Friday, March 07, 2025

NMOER Event: Finding and Evaluating Open Materials for Accessibility

📍 Online | Sign-up required

Continuing the Proactive Accessibility OER Series 2025, this workshop helps faculty finalize their OER projects by focusing on sourcing and evaluating open materials for accessibility. Participants will learn how to identify and assess openly licensed resources for critical accessibility features such as screen reader compatibility, proper tagging, and alt text. Faculty will also explore strategies for adapting and customizing materials to meet accessibility standards while adhering to licensing requirements. This session will equip attendees with a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate accessible practices into their projects and finalize materials that are inclusive, effective, and ready for publication or distribution.

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A digital flyer for Open Education Week 2025, happening from March 3-7 at the University of New Mexico. The flyer has a teal background with white and yellow text. It lists four events: (1) An online Open Textbook Review Workshop on March 4 from 12 PM to 1 PM, where faculty can receive a $200 stipend for reviewing a textbook. (2) An OER Presentation & Creative Book Crafts session on March 5 from Noon to 1 PM in Zimmerman Library B30. (3) Another OER Presentation & Creative Book Crafts session on March 6 from Noon to 1 PM in Zimmerman Library Frank Waters Room 105. (4) An online session on Finding and Evaluating Open Materials for Accessibility on March 7 from 12 PM to 1 PM. The flyer includes a QR code for registration, the URL 'goto.unm.edu/oerevents,' and logos for NM OER, UNM University Libraries, and Open Education Week 2025.

NMOER Consortium Workshop Series, Spring 2025

Throughout the Spring 2025 semester, the New Mexico OER Consortium is offering training and support for faculty and instructors interested in developing open and accessible curriculum for their courses. OER are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available to the public or released under an open license, allowing for their use, modification, and sharing.

Though the sessions will be spread out through the entire Spring 2025 semester, they are broken into 3 themes: Proactive Accessibility OER Series 2025, OER Creator Workshops 2025, and Open Education Week 2025. The Proactive Accessibility OER Series will equip faculty with skills to develop materials that respond to the needs of a wide range of learners with different abilities and life experiences.

The OER Creator Series will help faculty begin researching and developing materials to shift toward more open educational practices. And during the global event of Open Education Week, March 3–7, 2025, we will raise awareness of open education with events that can benefit both educators and students alike. This workshop series is open to educators across New Mexico to help spread awareness of open education and its best practices. 

Session Titles 

A flyer for the OER Spring 2025 Proactive Accessibility OER Creator Series. Workshops are organized into the following categories and dates: Proactive Accessibility: Accessibility in Creating Digital Content – January 31, 11 AM–12 PM (crossed out). Finding and Evaluating Open Materials for Accessibility – March 7, 12–1 PM. Creating Culturally Inclusive Materials – March 20, 12–1 PM. Deep Dive into Digital Accessibility – April 11, 11 AM–12 PM. OER Creator Series: 5. Finding and Evaluating Resources – February 7, 10–11 AM (crossed out). 6. Creative Commons Licensing, Copyright, and Fair Use – February 21, 2–3 PM (crossed out). 7. Pressbooks & H5P – March 28, 10–11 AM. 8. Adapting and Creating OER – May 2, 12–1 PM. 9. Open Pedagogy – May 20, 11 AM–12 PM. Open Education Week (March 3–7): 10. Open Textbook Review Workshop – March 4, 12–1 PM (crossed out). All workshops are held online. Learn more at 'goto.unm.edu/oerevents.' The flyer features vibrant headings and a clear, accessible layout.

UNM Tech Days 2025

The New Mexico OER Consortium (NMOER), piloted through the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences (CULLS), is excited to participate in Tech Days at UNM. 

Tech Days is a free event that offers no-cost sessions, discussions, and hands-on demos of current and future technological innovations at the University. This year during Tech Days, faculty who are actively integrating Open Educational Resources into their courses will present on their projects and curriculum during an OER Track at Tech Days on April 17th and April 18th.

The OER Track will be hybrid so that post-secondary educators from across the state can tune in and learn about the innovative ways that their peers across the state are integrating free resources into their courses. Faculty who teach not only courses within the state’s General Education Curriculum but also other undergraduate and graduate courses will be on hand to present their materials that have been vetted, adopted, adapted, and created with New Mexico’s student population as the primary audience.

Event Registration will be open 03/07/2025 through 04/04/2025.

A promotional graphic for the NMOER Presentation Series featured at Tech Days. The design has a purple and yellow diagonal split background. The top-left corner displays the logos for 'UNM Office of the Chief Information Officer' and 'UNM University Libraries.' At the center, the 'NMOER' logo is prominently featured, shaped like the outline of the state of New Mexico. Below the logo, text reads, 'Join us for the NMOER Presentation Series only at TECH DAYS,' followed by the URL 'techdays.unm.edu.' The background includes faint, technical-style line drawings of components such as a fan and other abstract shapes.

OER Consultations 

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You can also learn more about Creative Commons licensing by contacting the OER Librarian in the University libraries:

Jennifer Jordan 

jschall1@unm.edu

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