Upcoming Events

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. 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. 6. Creative Commons Licensing, Copyright, and Fair Use – February 21, 2–3 PM. 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. 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 

This is an animated image that displays the Creative Commons logo, or CC, in alternating colors including the rainbow and black.

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

Jennifer Jordan 

jschall1@unm.edu

Or you can schedule an appointment:

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