How Libraries are leading the way on OER. Presented by Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC, at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s OER Grantees Meeting 2014.
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Nicole Allen (@txtbks)
Director of Open Education
www.sparc.arl.org • @SPARC_NA
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Barriers for OER
• Awareness of OER as an option
• Discovery of appropriate OER
• Evaluating the quality of OER
• Logistics of adopting OER
• Sustainable publishing of OER
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Open Education Initiative
• Call for applications from faculty for
mini-grants
• Two one-hour workshops reviewing
OER and other low-cost resources
• Consultation sessions with librarians
and library partners
• Adoption of OER & low cost
materials
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Open Education Initiative
• 30 faculty participants
• 44 courses
• $46,000 invested, $700,000+ saved
by 5000+ students
• Faculty said 4.36 on a scale of 5
“Student performance improved
compared to past semesters when a
traditional textbook was used”
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Similar Projects
• Temple University
• UCLA
• Kansas State University
• University of Oklahoma
• Tacoma Community College
• More…
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Digital Coursepack Pilot
• Began to support an iPad project and
specific classes/instructors (Fall 2012).
• Expanded to include campus partners
(Copyright Permissions, Bookstore).
• Includes a variety of content types.
• Integrated into Moodle (CMS) environment.
• Support services developing around open
content and other digital content.
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Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
“Libraries transformed the
conversation about access to
research, they can do the same
for #OER” @txtbks #oer2014
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21. @txtbks @R2RCScholarly Publishing & Academic
Resources Coalition sparc.arl.org
Nicole Allen (@txtbks)
Director of Open Education
www.sparc.arl.org • @SPARC_NA