Winners of the Open Assets Awards 2021 for Best OER

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For announcement October 15, 2021 meet winners in one of the four categories of the Open Assets Award.

Open assets are what open education initiatives produce and use, tangible goods (usually digital) with educational purpose and value. Open assets are produced, curated, and distributed in ways that make them freely accessible, usable, and improvable by others.

The Best OER Category

High-quality innovative teaching and learning materials openly available online for everyone to use, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute. These can be presented in the form of:

  • Open Course (OCW/MOOC)
  • Open textbook
  • Video / Simulation / Animation
  • Audio / Audiobook

The winners are…

Open RN Nursing Skills textbook

https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingskills/
Chippewa Valley Technical College, United States

This is the second OER nursing textbook created by the Open RN project, published in May 2021, and funded by a grant from the Department of Education. Sixty-nine reviewers, including international students and faculty members, evaluated this OER for comprehensiveness, accuracy, relevance/currency, clarity, consistency, organization, accessibility/usability, and diversity & inclusion. The free e-book has CC-BY licensing and an optional, affordable print version is also available for purchase on Amazon and in college bookstores from XanEdu. Several learning activities with formative assessments are incorporated throughout the textbook to promote student success in their courses and on their nursing licensure exam.

Open RN Nursing Fundamentals textbook

https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/nursingfundamentals
Chippewa Valley Technical College, United States

This is the third OER nursing textbook created by the Open RN project that will be officially published in July 2021. The project was funded by a grant from the Department of Education. Over 100 international students and faculty members registered to review this OER textbook for comprehensiveness, accuracy, relevance/currency, clarity, consistency, organization, accessibility/usability, and diversity & inclusion. The free e-book has CC-BY licensing and an optional, affordable print version is also available for purchase on Amazon and in college bookstores from XanEdu. Several learning activities with formative assessments are incorporated throughout the textbook to promote student success in their courses and on their nursing licensure exam.

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Congratulations on a well deserved Open RN sweep of the Best OER! Just a week ago we published our podcast with @kernstmeyer about their 2020 award

So it looks like we will be calling again!

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Let the conversation continue! :partying_face:
Already looking forward to it.

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Nursing is one of those skills and vocations that is needed everywhere in the world. The pandemic has shown just how vital “front line workers” like nurses are to the well-being of society. How wonderful then that initiatives like the Open RN are making nursing education openly available to everyone around the world.

These two textbooks provide high quality, learning materials for a wide range of nursing concepts from, nutrition, to managing cognitive or sensory impairments, to neurological and respiratory assessments and much, much more. These books not only provide a framework for patient care but in themselves are a form of care through the sharing of this essential knowledge as OER. Congrats to the Open RN project and all involved and I encourage you all to watch the OEG Voices podcast with Kim Ernstmeyer Alan mentions to learn more about the overall work and efforts of the Open RN project.

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Thank you Alan, Marcela, and Paul! The Open RN team is thrilled to receive this award recognizing our efforts in creating high-quality OER available to everyone. We are especially grateful for the ability to share these resources with learners who strive to provide evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care to members of their communities.

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