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🌱Free Resource: Open Education in Practice: A Capstone Project on Making Open Education Enterable

Resource type: Capstone project, open education curriculum, implementation model

Best for: OER program leaders, librarians, instructional designers, faculty developers, teaching and learning staff, open education advocates



Open Education in Practice is my Texas OER Fellowship capstone project and a public documentation space for the curriculum, tools, and implementation model I developed to help people move from open education theory into open education practice.


The project began as a curriculum, but it became something larger: a connected open education infrastructure designed around the “messy middle” of OER work. That middle is where faculty search for resources, compare options, interpret licenses, consider accessibility, document decisions, and decide whether the work feels possible. As I describe in the project, the capstone asks what becomes possible when that middle is designed more intentionally.  


The resource includes the story and structure behind Open Education in Practice, including the curriculum, Canvas learning experience, badge pathway, Open Education Research & Planning Mini-Grant model, Landscape Brief templates, OER Tracker, implementation workflows, and public-facing resources others can adapt.  


At its heart, this project is about making open education easier to enter, easier to practice, and easier to carry forward. It is especially useful for people building or revising OER programs, affordable learning initiatives, faculty development pathways, mini-grants, badge programs, or open education support structures.


This is a good starting point if you are asking:

  • How do we help people move from interest in OER to supported action?

  • What structures help faculty explore before committing to adoption or creation?

  • How can open education programs document the search, evaluation, and decision-making process?

  • What does it look like to design OER support around clarity, care, and sustainability?

  • How can curriculum, badges, mini-grants, and documentation work together as infrastructure?


The project is grounded in my work as UTA’s OER Librarian and was developed through the Texas OER Fellowship. It reflects my ongoing interest in enterability: the design quality that determines whether people can find, understand, trust, and begin participating in a program or practice.



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