It's Open Education & Sunshine Week!

March 11-15th, 2013 is a busy time for information-- it is both Open Education Week and Sunshine Week! What's going on?

(It's not actually about the weather.)

Open Education Week is dedicated to spreading the word about free and low-cost digital solutions to sometimes expensive educational content (like textbooks and tutorial videos). There are many open source and web-based videos, texts, and classroom resources available on the web. Check out some classics of English literature, or let scientists teach you about the possibilities of a Star Trek warp engine on YouTube-- for free!




You can learn more about the week itself by visiting openeducationweek.org. For more free student & faculty resources, including free tutorials, classroom resources, textbooks, and professional development books at the Library for faculty, check out our Open Education Resource List put together by your UCC librarians and the friendly eLearning specialists at UCCOnline.

Sunshine Week is dedicated to raising awareness among Americans about the options available to them for viewing and requesting information from our governments, whether they are local, statewide, or national. As the tagline puts it: "Open Government is Good Government." This awareness week is sponsored by several professional news & reporter associations, including the American Society of News Editors and Bloomberg.

We have a display of related books and materials up at the UCC Library, and you can learn more about your options for accessing government information online by visiting our Government Information & Public Records research LibGuide.