Open Educational Resources Workshops being offered all semester long

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.

The sessions will be spread out through the entire Spring 2025 semester and are broken into 3 themes: Proactive Accessibility OER, OER Creator Workshops, 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.

Those interested in attending a workshop can register using the following links or visiting goto.unm.edu/oerevents

• Jan. 31 | 11 am - 12 pm - Accessibility in Creating Digital Content
• Feb. 7 | 10 am - 11 am - Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resources
• Feb. 21 | 2 pm - 3 pm - Creative Commons Licensing, Copyright, and Fair Use
• Mar. 4 | 12 pm - 1 pm - Open Textbook Review Workshop
• Mar. 7 | 12 pm - 1 pm - Finding and Evaluating Open Materials for Accessibility
• Mar. 20 | 12 pm - 1 pm- Creating Culturally Inclusive Materials
• Mar. 28 | 10 am - 11 am - Pressbooks & H5P
• April 11 | 11 am - 12 pm - Deep Dive into Digital Accessibility
• May 2 | 12 pm - 1 pm - Adapting and Creating OER
• May 20 | 11 am - 12 pm - Open Pedagogy

UNM's Open Educational Resource (OER) initiative seeks to provide faculty members with the support they need to adopt low and no-cost textbook and class material solutions for their courses when it aligns with their instructional objectives and academic freedom. As part of this initiative, the New Mexico Open Educational Resources (NMOER) consortium was created to establish an OER hub in partnership with multiple New Mexico Higher Education Institutions, workforce partners, and departments within UNM. Significantly, the grant provides support resources for OER material development through a collaboration with the University of New Mexico Press.