OER outreach for newbies, part III: Embracing the messiness
| Published | 12 April 2016 |
| Type of work | Blog |
| Publisher | ACRLog, Association of College and Research Libraries |
| Country | United States, North America |
ABSTRACT
This post is the third in a three-part series devoted to OER outreach (here are the first and second posts). I’ll use this post to advocate for more transparency from the library open education community in order to encourage OER newbies to take risks and share mistakes.| Keywords | academic libraries · OER · open education |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | © 1996–2018 American Library Association |
| URL | https://acrlog.org/2016/04/12/oer-part3/ |
| Access date | 2018 |
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