News and developments with OER from Sheffield and beyond

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Events

The OER Steering Group is currently running a survey to assess the use and awareness of OER. The survey closes at midnight on 22 May. Access the survey

Elevate blog takeover week, 18-22 May

During this week there will be a daily post on the related to Open Educational Resources authored by different people working in this area.

New case study published

Dr Alexis Moschopoulos from the School of Education shares his experience of developing a reading list containing material that is all openly and the benefits this brings for his students.

Past events

Education Conference, 15 April 2026

The University's OER Steering Group ran a workshop on the morning of the conference. Slides from all of the sessions are available .

Recent titles from the ��TV

by Professor Louise Robson (Biosciences)

This is an intermediate level book aimed at undergraduate and graduate students following human biology programmes who have a basic understanding of renal physiology. It covers the clearance technique, and how it can be used to evaluate renal function in humans. It goes through the different calculations, before giving you an opportunity to have a go at some calculations using real data. It finishes by evaluating the values from a clearance experiment, where the effect of the drug ACTZ was investigated.

by Dr Kyuin Kim (Languages, Arts and Societies) and Hyungjung Lee (University of California, Irvine)

Using Korean cuisine as its central theme, the book introduces practical vocabulary, essential expressions, and key sentence patterns in meaningful cultural contexts. Designed for both beginners and continuing learners, this book offers an enjoyable and practical way to develop linguistic skills while deepening cultural understanding.

by Dr Rebecca Denniss and Dr Stan Naneva (Psychology)

This easy-to-follow introduction to JASP will help you get to grips with the basics—no previous experience needed. Originally written for first-year psychology students at the ��TV, it walks you through everything from entering data and adjusting settings to running t-tests, correlations, and chi-square analyses. With clear explanations, practical tips, and helpful screenshots, this guide makes learning JASP simple and stress-free.

Recent titles from elsewhere

by Michael Edwards, John Kitchen, Nikki Moran, Zack Moir and Richard Worth

The resources in this e-book include video lectures and their transcripts, as well as supporting text explanations, examples and illustrations. The materials introduce topics such as the organisation of discrete pitches into scales and intervals, and temporal organisation of musical sounds as duration, in rhythm and metre. These rudiments are presented through an introduction to the elements of five-line stave notation, and through critical discussion of the advantages and limitations served by notational systems in the representation and analysis of musical sounds.

edited by Rachel King and Trinidad Rico

Through a diverse collection of expert voices, this volume invites readers to embark on their own journeys through appropriate methodologies for research and public engagement. Readers can draw on analyses of key problem areas and argumentative interventions to create a roadmap for the many disciplinary approaches that converge on heritage studies. Oriented specifically towards learning and teaching heritage across archaeology, anthropology, history and geography, this textbook is designed to support critical, ethical heritage students, researchers and practitioners.

edited by Dr. Jonathan Hogg and Dr. Laura Balderstone

Covering major themes within the medieval, early modern and modern periods, this e-textbook provides students with the opportunity to examine rare and original material in detail on their computer, tablet or phone as well as learn how they can integrate the source material in their own written work.

by Judith Bosboomand Marcel J.F. Stive

This textbook focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems. The textbook is unique in that it explicitly connects the dynamics of open coasts and tidal basins; not only is the interaction between open coasts and tidal basins of basic importance for the evolution of most coastal systems, but describing the similarities between their physical processes is highly instructive as well. This textbook emphasizes these similarities to the benefit of understanding shared processes such as nonlinearities in flow and sediment transport. Some prior knowledge with respect to the dynamics of flow, waves and sediment transport is recommended.

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