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OER Summit on March 23 offers drop-in registration

A focus of the event will include how to provide low-cost, high-quality course materials to students without the expense of traditional textbooks.

Spaces are still available at all Penn State campus locations hosting the OER Summit — in person at Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, University Park — or via simulcast events at more than a dozen Penn State campuses. Credit: public domainAll Rights Reserved.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — To accommodate faculty and instructional designers who want to provide low-cost course materials for their students and who missed the registration deadline, Penn State's first Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit on March 23 will have on-site registration outside Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library, at University Park.

In addition, more than a dozen Penn State campuses' faculty are gathering locally for simulcast events supporting networking and discussion, and welcome drop-in attendees:

  • Abington: 202 Woodland Building
  • Altoona: 202 Eiche Library/Learning Resources Center (LRC)
  • Behrend: 112 Reed Union Building
  • Beaver: 103 Ross Administration Building (RAB)
  • Berks: 145 Thun Library
  • Fayette: 114 Eberly Building
  • Greater Allegheny: 119 Frable Building
  • Harrisburg: 106 Library
  • Hazleton: L-12 Library
  • Lehigh Valley: 2nd Floor Conference
  • Mont Alto: 215 Library
  • Schuylkill: 102 Ciletti Library
  • Shenango: 105 Sharon Hall

The OER Summit is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and Penn State Outreach and Online Education. More information about the summit is available online.

For more information about open educational resources at Penn State, contact Penn State OER Task Force members Ann Snowman, head of Access Services, University Libraries, or John Shank, head librarian, Penn State Berks Thun Library.

The agenda for Penn State's first Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit, held at Foster Auditorium and online via MediaSite Live on March 23, includes opening remarks at 8:45 a.m. by Dean Barbara I. Dewey, dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Publishing and chair of the Penn State OER Task Force. Additional information about the event, including a registration link for all participants, regardless of location, is available at http://tinyurl.com/OERsummit16. Credit: Penn State University Libraries / Penn StateCreative Commons

Last Updated May 9, 2016