This event is on next Tuesday (24th) and may be tricky for many people to attend. But it sounds well worth it from the description below.

‘University Centre for Teaching and Learning welcome visiting speaker, JQ Johnson who will present a talk on open educational resources. Open educational resources are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.

JQ Johnson is the Director of Scholarly Communications and Instructional Support at the University of Oregon library. In addition to responsibilities coordinating faculty training in educational technology and managing his university’s Course Management System, he is responsible for supporting UO faculty members in their scholarly publishing and providing leadership in the reform of scholarly publishing. Open access to educational resources is a theme running through many of the projects he has been involved in over the past decade, ranging from lecture recording to open textbooks.’