Tennessee Open Education Hub

A Statewide Professional Learning Community for Faculty

Inspiration. Ideation. Collaboration.

Learn About the Tennessee Open Education Hub

Open Educational Resources are more than free textbooks. OER empower faculty with the freedom to design and employ the most effective materials for their instructional enterprise. OER enable new ways of teaching, engaging, and connecting with students.

The Tennessee Open Education Hub brings together the intellectual and creative power of faculty throughout the state, providing a place to build and share resources with the common goal of improving student learning outcomes.

For more information about how Tennessee is making college more accessible and equitable, visit Tennessee Open Education.

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TN Open Education Week 2023

Feb. 17, 2023, 2:53 p.m.

Tennessee Open Education Week: Learn, Listen, Link

Open Education Week is quickly approaching. We have an exciting slate of virtual events this year, allowing you the opportunity to learn about cutting edge work happening in Tennessee, listen to Tennessee Students, and link to the larger conversations happening about OER and open education. 

Here are the great events coming during Open Education Week (click on the link behind each title to register for the event; or see the whole schedule along with descriptions of each program at the THEC website). 

If you have any questions, email ryan.korstange@tn.gov. And - please share this information widely. 

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    Tennessee Collection

    Explore collections of course materials created by colleges and universities in Tennessee

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    OER Commons Collection

    Explore collections of course materials created by faculty, institutions, and organizations around the world

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    OER Working Groups

    Register and create a profile, to be able to join your system, college, or university group and begin collaborating to organize, create, and share resources with your colleagues

    Getting Started

    Open Author

    Get started using our OER authoring tool, Open Author. This video walks you through how to author and remix; including how to add and format content, import and attach resources, embed media, add co-authors, check for accessibility, describe your resource, select a license, align to standards, publish, and download.

    Created by ISKME. Licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

    How to Use Groups on OER Commons

    This video tutorial shows users how to create and manage groups on OER Commons, and how to share resources within those groups.

    Trainings & Webinars

    Tennessee Open Education Introduction

    Tennessee Textbook Affordability Taskforce members were invited to get an early look at the soon to be launched Tennessee Open Education Hub - the first of its kind collaborative platform that supports courseware improvement for both public and private colleges and universities in Tennessee. This informative session provided participants with an opportunity to discover tools to identify, curate, design, build, and share high-quality resources to impact teaching and student learning outcomes. We also showcased OER exemplars and use cases from colleges and universities in Tennessee and beyond.

    OER First Day of Class

    OER First Day of Class

    OER First Day of Class

    OER First Day of Class

    OER First Day of Class

    OER First Day of Class

    Managing Groups & Sharing OER Training

    Tennessee Open Education Hub Group Administrators and Grantees joined us to explore the Hub collaboration and authoring tools and workflows, and develop plans for how to best utilize groups to facilitate engagement and sharing of resources.

    Instructions for how to manage groups and author resources

    TN Open Education Hub Overview

    This webinar was an introduction to the Tennessee Open Education Hub for faculty and librarians interested in accessing high-quality digital resources, connecting and collaborating with others, and sharing resources.