This presentation was provided by Ashley Miller of Ohio State University during the NISO Virtual Conference, Opening Up Education, held on April 19, 2017.
2. ALX
CORE
PARTNERS
• University Center for the
Advancement of
Teaching
• University Libraries
• Office of Distance
Education and eLearning
• Undergraduate Student
Government
10. THE POWER OF OPEN
• Creative problem-solving
• Instructor-student
engagement
• Collaboration and
evolution
• Transformed classrooms
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11. AFFORDABILITY = OPTIONS
Hundreds of
high-quality, peer-review
and collaboratively authored
open textbooks
available, with
constant growth.
12. There is at least one free,
open alternative textbook
for 16 of our top 20 courses.
AFFORDABILITY = OPTIONS
19. STUDENT FEEDBACK
• Focus groups at 4
campuses
• Dissatisfaction with
textbooks in general
• Bundled resources
20. CONTENT CAMP - BASICS
• Collaborative assessment
• Goal of 1,000 questions per discipline
• 5 contributors per team
• Pilot includes Macroeconomics, Medical
Biology, Sociology
• Ready for use in Fall 2017
24. FINANCIAL SUPPORT
• Stipend for team leaders and
contributors: $3,000K, $1,200K
• Shared between OSU and
home campus
• Modeling future grants
25. • Team recruitment
• Leads are hard at work on course
objectives
• Calls scheduled and event booked
• Tool development
OUR PROGRESS … SO FAR
26. • Subject-specific needs
• Cast a wide net
• No tool will deliver exactly the experience
we’d imagined
• Iterative process (we learn this one again
and again!)
LESSONS LEARNED … SO FAR!