The form for the 2023-2024 call (second semester) is now available (https://forms.office.com/e/wvBVTR7pdu). Deadline: December 31st (but only documents uploaded to BURJC Digital by December 20th will be guaranteed to be processed, and no processing will take place during the holiday period).
This second call is being held at Rey Juan Carlos University to promote the creation of high-quality open educational resources among teachers and encourage their use in the subjects they teach. The call is an initiative of the Vice-Rectorates of Digital Transformation and Teaching Innovation, Community Campus, Culture and Sports, and Academic Planning and Teacher Training. It is part of the collaborative project RED (Digital Educational Resources: Quality and Open Sharing), funded under the UniDigital Plan of the Ministry of Universities.
The details of the call can be consulted in the document Call for recognition of open publication of subjects 2023-2024. Below, we summarize and explain some of its most important aspects. In case of discrepancy between this summary and the document, the document will prevail, as it is the official publication by the University.
- Slides used in the presentation: PDF format, ODF format for LibreOffice.
We offer a public telematic session to resolve doubts about the call, via Teams:
- Monday, September 4th, 1 pm via Teams at this link
- Here is the recording of the July session:
Objective
This call aims to promote the work of URJC teaching staff in publishing their materials in open access subjects, evaluating their work and assigning, where applicable, an economic incentive and other benefits and effects, recognizing the effort made in creating published materials during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Participation
Participation in this call involves proposing subjects from the URJC virtual classroom, which must be official teaching subjects in a degree or master’s program at URJC during the 2023-2024 academic year. The teaching materials of these subjects must have been previously published in open access.
Publication of open access materials
The materials submitted for evaluation must have a visible license indicating the terms of their publication, which must be one of the open access licenses approved by the URJC Open Publication Council, with the consent of all authors (Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike licenses from Creative Commons).
Materials in bibliographic format (guides, notes, collections of problems and exercises, collections of exams, presentations, etc.) must be published in the open access institutional repository, BURJC Digital. Videos and audios must be uploaded to TV URJC.
You can consult the document How to publish teaching materials in open access to understand the complete process of publishing teaching materials in open access.
Submission of applications
To propose a subject, once its materials have been published in open access, the responsible teacher (according to the Teaching Organization Plan) must fill out the call form (first semester).
Subjects taught during the first semester can be submitted until September 10, 2023, and those taught during the second semester until December 30, 2023.
Resolving doubts
To resolve doubts related to this call, a video conference has been planned, which will be recorded and made available on this website:
- Monday, September 4th, 1 pm via Teams at this link
You can also consult the frequently asked questions, with their answers, below. If you cannot find the answer to your question, you can send an email to ofilibre@urjc.es, where we will try to respond as soon as possible.
Frequently asked questions about this call 🔗
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