Latest Entries

1. Insights from our Tagging Ontologies Working Group

   Entry #1213

   18 Nov 2021

   8:00 am

   Sebastian Alejandro Echeverri

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   This past summer, several of us in the Open Education community, participated in a RIOS Institute Working Group to explore potential ways we might think about metadata which supports inclusive and anti-racist Open Education Resources (OER). How we design our OER databases, search functions, and...

2. Call for Working Group proposals - RIOS Institute

   Entry #1209

   15 Nov 2021

   3:02 pm

   Sebastian Alejandro Echeverri

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   Summary: The RIOS Institute invites proposals for Working Groups that will function as innovation sandboxes or think tank incubators. Accepted proposals will receive a $2000 budget. Participants will bring new ideas and address challenges as they develop a tangible product aligned with the RIOS...

3. Aug 11 - Inclusive Teaching Webinar 3 pm

   Entry #1151

   09 Aug 2021

   10:18 am

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   SCORE-UBE (Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education), EDSIN (Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network), B(ui)LDS (Biological Universal and Inclusive Learning in Data Science, BLUE (Biodiversity...

4. Learning community announcement: Building Just and Sustainable OER

   Entry #1142

   16 Jul 2021

   1:10 pm

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   Do you lead an organization, project, or professional development related to Open Education or STEM Education in higher ed? Need help improving your broader impacts and sustainability in a way that centers justice and equity? Are you interested in tools and feedback to better reach your audience...

5. The 2021 Northeast Regional OER Summit

   Entry #1101

   04 Jun 2021

   8:58 am

   Karen Cangialosi

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   The 2021 Northeast Regional OER Summit took place virtually this year from May 24-26 offering a variety of workshops and sessions, and included a regional OER expert-facilitated “genius bar” that ran throughout the conference where participants could drop in at any time to ask...

6. Registration Open - Open Practices, Open Science, and Social Justice Learning Community

   Entry #1078

   29 Mar 2021

   2:21 pm

   Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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   Please join a 6-session Learning Community series entitled Educating our Next Generation of Scientists: Open Educational Practices, Open Science and Social Justice Learning Community led by Dr. Karen Cangialosi in which participants will engage in discussions, short readings...

7. #StopAsianHate

   Entry #1077

   29 Mar 2021

   9:11 am

   Carrie Diaz Eaton

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   I’ve spent the last week or two working on my professional society’s response to the call to Asian allyship after the murders in Atlanta. While the call to #StopAsianHate was directly after these murders, Asian hate crime has been on the steady rise, particularly after the COVID-19...

8. Hewlett-funded SCORE Collaborative Pilot Projects - Spotlight on SIMIODE

   Entry #951

   13 Nov 2020

   11:04 am

   Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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   SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations is a Community of Practice of faculty who wish to teach differential equations through modeling activities, many of which are in the life sciences. Prior to receiving a SCORE Collaborative Pilot...

9. Hewlett-funded SCORE Collaborative Pilot Projects - Spotlight on MMHub

   Entry #935

   26 Oct 2020

   8:46 pm

   Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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   The Math Modeling Hub (MMHub) serves as a community of practice and resource repository for teachers from pre-kindergarten onward that aims to facilitate the integration of mathematical modeling in classrooms.  Since its inception in July, 2018, MMHub has struggled to grow the critical mass...

10. Hewlett-funded SCORE Collaborative Pilot Projects - Spotlight on ISKME

    Entry #910

    16 Sep 2020

    11:11 am

    Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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    Research by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) and the Science Resource Education Center (SERC) at Carleton College have found that metadata describing the accessibility of OER are confusing for educators. To address this challenge, ISKME and SERC, with...

11. S-JEDI learning community/reading group opportunity

    Entry #867

    16 Jun 2020

    12:26 pm

    Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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    Dear SCORE community, Given the current events and the difficult discussions, particularly about anti-racist work in the academy, SCORE Network is pleased to announce we are launching a learning community this week to support OER-related organizations. We will meet weekly for 6 weeks to discuss...

12. SCORE opportunity for much needed justice discussions

    Entry #864

    08 Jun 2020

    3:01 pm

    Carrie Diaz Eaton

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    The following is a copy of a forum post from last week - recorded here (link), but moved to the blog to increase visibility. Good afternoon colleagues and friends, The SCORE-UBE network has asked us to consider work with each other to improve our sustainability and envision a future goal of...

13. Announcing the SCORE Collaborative Grants Awardees

    Entry #863

    08 Jun 2020

    10:54 am

    Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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    Thank you to all who submitted applications for the SCORE Collaborative Pilot Program.  This program is funded by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Education Program to Bates College. The goal of our Collaborative Grants Program is to support nascent collaborations...

14. Hewlett Foundation Announcement

    Entry #843

    02 Apr 2020

    1:30 pm

    Carrie Diaz Eaton

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    Good afternoon, I know that everyone is busy with so many new obligations in this historical time. I wanted to shine a light, however, the role of open education resources, including open source software, in student success.  It is with this in mind that I write to share some exciting...

15. Is it 2020 already?

    Entry #771

    06 Feb 2020

    4:11 pm

    Carrie Diaz Eaton

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    SCORE-UBE Network News February, 2020 1) Travel funding available for SCORE-related events 2) RCN-UBE Full grant is in 3) How did the SCORE Summit help you? We want to hear stories! Travel funding The grant which funded the SCORE Summit at Bates College last October has...

16. The SCORE Summit 2019 Wrap-up!

    Entry #688

    07 Nov 2019

    10:22 am

    Maggie Diamond-Stanic

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    Thank you to all of the many organizations, projects, and institutions which were able to join us for the Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education (SCORE-UBE) meeting!  This meeting was supported by an NSF DBI RCN-UBE grant, a...