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Celebrating Open 2025: The CMT Fellowship

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At the time of writing this blog, it is Open Education (OE) Week 2025. OE Week is a worldwide celebration held the first week of March that connects and inspires practitioners, educators, students, and communities that support and promote open educational practices. Open educational practices are teaching and learning methods that use open technologies and resources to encourage collaboration and flexibility as well as affordability and equity across education. In honor of OE Week, the Campus Library would like to highlight one of our own successful open education-centered programs. In collaboration with IU East’s Center for Faculty Development, the Course Material Transformation (CMT) Fellowship is one example of how the Campus Library is supporting instructors in their efforts to flip … Continued

Money makes the research go ’round

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July brings a new fiscal year and with it comes renewal requests for many of the databases and other online resources you may need for your academic research. We wanted to share with you the costs of some of these. The viability of these resources for our campus is calculated using a formula of “cost per use.” The more times they are used, the lower the per-person cost. So let’s get the most bang for our buck while also getting the benefit of using reliable resources for research! If you have any questions about any library resources, you are welcome to “Ask us!” by contacting library director Frances Yates, fyates@iue.edu.