The Lyryx OER Champion campaign was created to celebrate the efforts and successes of instructors working to adopt, adapt and develop open educational resources (OERs) in conjunction with Lyryx. Running from January to March of 2019, an OER Champion was selected every other week, with their story showcased on the Lyryx website and social media. Upon selecting four OER Champions, Lyryx authors followed specific guidelines in collectively voting for the Lyryx OER Champion of the Year. Below is Dr. Jensen’s story, as submitted by Suzanne Kyle:

“Currently, all three of Tilly’s courses have OERs in place and are actively running. Tilly has worked diligently with the province and all other stakeholders, first to secure the level of funding needed, without which the OERs would never have been written. Second, she also provided countless hours of mentoring to the OER authors, and to other Athabasca University staff. Since Tilly is a respected and experienced author herself, she was in a unique position to take the lead for these OERs, to liaise with all the stakeholders, including Department of Education, and take this process from funding acquisition, to production to rollout for all three of her 3rd-level university courses. During that time, she took the lead to navigate the many roadblocks and to resolve the myriad of issues arising throughout the OER process so that the OER project would reach fruition, which they have. This took a lot of effort in addition to her other duties with Athabasca University. One last and very important point, Tilly is a staunch supporter and is truly passionate about the creation of OERs and three newly created OERs to add to the OER community is proof of that passion.”

Follow up with Lyryx in January 2020 when the OER Champion campaign will celebrate another round of OER advocates. See all Lyryx OER Champion stories here.

About Lyryx Learning
Lyryx Learning is an open educational resources (OER) company based in Calgary, Alberta that began in the Mathematics Department at the University of Calgary. Lyryx was established in 2000 and is supporting instructors across Canada by sustaining OER and developing adaptable, accessible and affordable resources for higher education. Lyryx provides quality OER and services including open texts, assessments, supplements and support in the subjects of: Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting and Economics.

Lyryx offers a modern model strengthening open educational resources, providing excellent materials and services to students at an affordable price. We are advancing learning as champions of access to knowledge.

For more information contact:
Tamsyn Murnaghan
Director of Client Services
P: 877-670-6726 ext.222
tamsyn@lyryx.com

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The thirteen examples provide insights into multiple facets of OER development, use and impact:

• Use of OER for teaching and learning;
• Integration of OER into programs and courses;
• Development of OER by individual faculty, as well as teams;
• Adaption of OER to match culture, language, and course content requirements;
• Strategies to involve faculty in the development and use of OER;
• Benefits of OER for student learning and faculty effectiveness; and
• Organizational change resulting from the integration of OER.

The descriptions outline the organizational contexts that motivated the introduction of OER into teaching and learning, as well as details of the policies, practices, development processes, and resources involved. Benefits and challenges for faculty, students and, in some examples, institutions receive particular attention, followed by consideration of the potential of OER in each academic situation.

Contacts are provided for each description and links to further information.

Click on the links below to read the descriptions.

• A Flexible OER Implementation Using a Commercial Application at Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada
• A Mathematics OER Implementation at Scottsdale Community College, Arizona, USA
• An Institutional Approach to OER implementation at the University of South Africa (UNISA)
• An OER Implementation in Maskwacis Cultural College, an Indigenous College in Alberta, Canada
• Implementing OER in the Z-Degree Program at Tidewater Community College, Virginia, USA
• OER and MOOCs at the National Open University of Nigeria
• OER Implementation in the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
• Open Educational Resources at Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon
• Open Educational Resources at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Open Educational Resources: The Experience of the Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia
• The California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed) at California State University, California Community Colleges and the University of California
• The Implementation of Open Educational Resources at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• The Project Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative at Mercy College, New York, USA

Original Article: https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/open-education-resources-oer-applications-around-world/taxonomy-term

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Amidst more than 6,000 mathematicians, Lyryx spread the word about open educational resources (OER), namely open texts in Calculus, Linear Algebra and Introductory Statistics. Attendees were excited to hear that Lyryx is providing adaptable and accessible open texts and instructor supplements, but also a uniquely affordable online homework system to aid in student learning.

President and Founder, Claude Laflamme, was also on site to present “A Sustainable Model for OER” in the MAA Session on the Advancement of Open Educational Resources. This is part of efforts at Lyryx to promote OER in a sustainable and affordable manner, taking into account not only the costs and benefits to students, but also those of instructors and institutions interested in supporting OER.  There was plenty of interest from participants, in particular on how Lyryx continues to develop OER while producing accessible, affordable and pedagogically sound online homework.

Lyryx looks forward to attending JMM 2019, but for now, everyone is busy following up with all the mathematics instructors interested in exploring Lyryx with Open Texts.

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For Lyryx, it was an opportunity to meet with a plethora of instructors seeking adaptable, accessible and affordable resources for their courses. There were a lot of (happily) surprised faces, when visitors to our booth learned of the open (free) textbooks Lyryx develops and posts on their website. Eyes and smiles grew even larger when we told them about the freely available in LaTeX files and that online formative assessment (homework) is uniquely affordable for students at $0-$39.95!

We are very grateful to the AMATYC for organizing such an expansive conference and we look forward to attending again next year.

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Lyryx President and Professor of Mathematics, Claude Laflamme, was invited to speak in the session regarding online assessment. His extensive experience with both developing and using online assessment was of great value to those seeking more information about resources available and their effectiveness.

A wonderful spirit of comradery, both among neighboring exhibitors and attendees, was a highlight of the event. In addition, LOTs for Calculus and Linear Algebra generated significant interest from many attendees and the Lyryx team is excited to follow up with interested parties the coming weeks!

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