Open Education Resources: Professional Development Opportunities

Affordable Learning Kentucky is a CPE-sponsored committee working to bring statewide coordination and capacity-building to open and affordable textbook work taking place throughout Kentucky.

With this team approach in mind, and supported by a generous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, we've designed a Certificate in Open Educational Practices (OEP) program to serve faculty and librarians like you. Paired as a team of two (one faculty + one librarian), you'll learn about the range of open educational practices in the fall, then work together to create a personalized action plan that will allow you to implement your own open educational practice project in the spring.

The Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED) and ISKME have partnered to offer an eight week Open Educational Resource (OER) train-the-trainer intensive to support teacher educators at Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to utilize and develop high quality OER. During the Summer Institute, participants will develop an OER module, a three part webinar series, and an OER workshop to train 12+ teachers. The Summer Institute will provide an introduction to OER; practice with discovery, collaboration, curation, and quality evaluation; exploration in design, authoring, and remixing; development of an OER Training plan; peer review, reflection, and refinement of resources; and advocacy and leadership.

Shifting education practice to open can be a daunting notion. ISKME is here to help. Our team of OER design and implementation experts can help you craft a plan to find, organize, and create the OER content your organization needs to succeed.

We offer free webinars to help educators gain the skills necessary to shift to an open practice.