Big news from VIVA:
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Dear colleagues,
VIVA is thrilled to announce the launch of VIVA Open, an OER Commons website designed to support the open education efforts of Virginia faculty and higher education professionals:
https://vivaopen.oercommons.org/
VIVA Open will serve as a repository for VIVA Course Redesign Grant projects, and the Spring 2019 Cohort will be the first to populate the site with Virginia created and adopted open educational resources (OER). In addition to serving as a repository, VIVA Open supports the creation and adaptation of new OER, lesson plans, and courses through the resource and module builder tools. VIVA Open also contains VIVA Open Collaborations Hub – an online space to facilitate group collaboration and material discovery. Additionally, VIVA Open Curated Collections provides a listing of existing OER that serve a variety of disciplines.
VIVA Open is freely accessible to all, and users may register an account to create and submit resources, join groups, and save items found and/or evaluated within the collections. Future VIVA Open projects include a Course Mapping Hub that will provide a listing of OER suitable for high enrollment and Transfer Virginia courses. We’ll continue to update you as the site is populated with materials and as new trainings and tools are made available. We encourage you to explore what VIVA Open has to offer, and look forward to your feedback on this new resource. To get you started, please join the OER Champions group and share a link to your favorite OER. Lastly, please distribute this announcement widely to your networks!
For questions or feedback related to VIVA Open, please contact viva@gmu.edu.
Best –
Anne.
Anne C. Osterman
VIVA Director
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Dear colleagues,
VIVA is thrilled to announce the launch of VIVA Open, an OER Commons website designed to support the open education efforts of Virginia faculty and higher education professionals:
https://vivaopen.oercommons.org/
VIVA Open will serve as a repository for VIVA Course Redesign Grant projects, and the Spring 2019 Cohort will be the first to populate the site with Virginia created and adopted open educational resources (OER). In addition to serving as a repository, VIVA Open supports the creation and adaptation of new OER, lesson plans, and courses through the resource and module builder tools. VIVA Open also contains VIVA Open Collaborations Hub – an online space to facilitate group collaboration and material discovery. Additionally, VIVA Open Curated Collections provides a listing of existing OER that serve a variety of disciplines.
VIVA Open is freely accessible to all, and users may register an account to create and submit resources, join groups, and save items found and/or evaluated within the collections. Future VIVA Open projects include a Course Mapping Hub that will provide a listing of OER suitable for high enrollment and Transfer Virginia courses. We’ll continue to update you as the site is populated with materials and as new trainings and tools are made available. We encourage you to explore what VIVA Open has to offer, and look forward to your feedback on this new resource. To get you started, please join the OER Champions group and share a link to your favorite OER. Lastly, please distribute this announcement widely to your networks!
For questions or feedback related to VIVA Open, please contact viva@gmu.edu.
Best –
Anne.
Anne C. Osterman
VIVA Director