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Policies and Guidelines

https://www.it.northwestern.edu/security/index.html. Publishers and Vendors Some publishers and educational technology vendors offer deals on ... use with Northwestern student data. To ensure the privacy of Northwestern University student data, use ... only the tools approved for use at the University. Most of these will be listed in the Canvas Resource ...

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Open Educational Resources Grants

to explore the use and creation of open educational resources (OER) for undergraduate courses. ... materials without restrictions and at no cost to students. The Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) ... financial and technical barriers for students. OER are free educational materials that provide faculty the ...

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Intro to OER: How to Find and Use Open Educational Resources

03/03/2021 - 2:00pm

Intro to OER: How to Find and Use Open Educational Resources Open Educational Resources (OER) are ... barriers to student access, using OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized course ... OER and open licenses, learn about resources for finding and using OER across disciplines, and explore ...

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Intro to OER: How to Find and Use Open Educational Resources

02/16/2021 - 1:00pm

Intro to OER: How to Find and Use Open Educational Resources Open Educational Resources (OER) are ... led by Lauren McKeen McDonald, Open Education Librarian. It is open to Northwestern faculty, students ... barriers to student access, using OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized course ...

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Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class

07/07/2020 - 2:00pm

Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class Open Educational Resources (OER) ... attendees will be able to: Define Open Educational Resources, and see OER as an alternative to traditional ... create barriers to student access, OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized ...

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Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class

08/04/2020 - 2:00pm

Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class Open Educational Resources (OER) ... attendees will be able to: Define Open Educational Resources, and see OER as an alternative to traditional ... create barriers to student access, OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized ...

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Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class

09/01/2020 - 3:00pm

Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class Open Educational Resources (OER) ... attendees will be able to: Define Open Educational Resources, and see OER as an alternative to traditional ... create barriers to student access, OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized ...

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Pilot Program to save students $179K in first year

Pilot Program to save students $179K in first year Open Educational Resources Grants Posted May ... 23, 2019 by Lauren McKeen The newly launched Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant program was ... interested in using or developing Open Educational Resources are encouraged to contact Chris Diaz, Digital ...

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Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class

07/21/2020 - 3:00pm

Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class Open Educational Resources (OER) ... attendees will be able to: Define Open Educational Resources, and see OER as an alternative to traditional ... create barriers to student access, OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized ...

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Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class

08/18/2020 - 2:00pm

Free, digital, and adaptable: Finding and using OER in your class Open Educational Resources (OER) ... attendees will be able to: Define Open Educational Resources, and see OER as an alternative to traditional ... create barriers to student access, OER guarantees that students can access high-quality, customized ...

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New Funding Opportunity - Open Educational Resources Grants

New Funding Opportunity- Open Educational Resources Grants Apply now through April 15 The ... use and creation of open educational resources (OER) for undergraduate courses. Commercial textbooks ... and educational materials in order to reduce course materials costs for students and highlight the ...

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NCEER Workshop: Helping Students Learn Via Sketching

04/09/2019 - 4:00pm

NCEER Workshop: Helping Students Learn Via Sketching Sketching is a valuable way to think and ... communicate in many STEM disciplines. Sketch Worksheets are a new kind of sketch-based educational software, ... exercise which a student does on a computer. Students get feedback based on an automatic comparison of ...

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Researchers' Toolkit: GIS

02/09/2017 - 12:00pm

with ArcGIS Desktop installed (available at http://www.it.northwestern.edu/software/arcgis/index ... .html) required if you wish to follow along. Pizza will be provided. Get Started New Educational Technologies ...

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Tech Available for Checkout from University Library

Tech Available for Checkout from University Library Student Conducts Research with Library iPads ... and easily accessible technology, School of Education and Social Policy senior Jamila Silver turned to ... Chicago. Lucky for her, the Northwestern Library has them available for checkout to students ...

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deliver the very best education and position our students for success in their lives and careers? How can ... resources across campus that support digital learning. Please reach out to any of these groups to get ... enhance teaching and learning? How does this vary across disciplines and student backgrounds? In what ways ...

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Faculty Workshop: Designing a Course around Learning Objectives

10/10/2019 - 4:00pm

for students; (2) reflect critically on the skills, knowledge and attributes they would like their ... students to achieve in a course or module; and (3) craft learning objectives which will allow them to ... measure their students' skills, knowledge and attributes by the end of a course or module. ...

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Amazon Web Services Workshop

, Amazon Web Services, Inc.’s program to help students learn cloud technology skills and help educators ... more about: The types of services AWS Educate offers to students and instructors. Success stories as ... Amazon and other employers. AWS Educate also provides access to training resources, and, for educators ...

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Course Materials

directly to your Canvas course. This video explains how. Open Educational Resources (OER) at Northwestern ... Open Educational Resources (OER) are free teaching materials (such as textbooks, presentations, and ... exploring OER, consider the following resources: Open Textbook Library: managed by the Open Education ...

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Amazon Web Services Workshop

02/08/2017 - 5:30pm

Educate is Amazon Web Services, Inc.’s program to help students learn cloud technology skills, and help ... educators incorporate cloud concepts in the classroom to better prepare students to the enter the cloud ... jobs from Amazon and other employers. AWS Educate also provides access to training resources, and, for ...

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New Workshop Series Offers Advanced Digital Learning Instructor Certificate

Educational Resources, Creating Pedagogically Sound Videos, and Course Mapping. Instructors who complete all ... Digital Learning Instructor Certificate Series Reducing Course Costs with Open Educational Resources Open ... Educational Resources (OER) are free teaching and learning materials that allow instructors to modify, adapt, ...

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Librarians Support Faculty Adoption of Open Digital Textbooks

Textbook Library Each year, the rising cost of a college education puts pressure on students and families ... are working to advance the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OERs), which include a range of ... experimentation with methods to make a Northwestern education affordable for all students. Diaz became involved in ...

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