‘How to Use...’ seminar series
Our ‘How to Use...’ series comprises short, bitesize seminars that take a practical look at University tools, systems, and services for open research and open education
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Informed by success stories across the University, researchers and research professionals share their knowledge and experience of the tasks and processes required to accessing, managing, and sharing a range of scholarly assets and outputs.
See our sister seminar series, ‘How to Share...’ for short, bitesize seminars that look at how best to share different research data types to help you make your research outputs more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) and open.
How to Use... Open Educational Resources (OERs)
8th April 2025
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In this session, Helen Moore explains what OERs are and why they matter in education, explores practical ways to find, use, and apply OERs in our work, and shares how OERs support knowledge equity for students and wider communities. Helen also showcases the existing Open Educational Resources (OERs) at Sheffield, and how they contribute to the University’s broader commitment to Open Scholarship. Helen is the Faculty Librarian for Engineering and Science at the University and is enthusiastic about providing equitable access to learning resources to students. Helen works with educators to explore the use of open educational resources (OER) to support degree programmes and learning outcomes. Helen helps to run a fledgling OER service within the University and manages the Sheffield Pressbooks Network. She also co-chairs the University’s OER Steering Group. Find out more about our support for OER.