Open Educational Resources - Summery Report - Faculty Survey

1. Open Educational
Resources
project at Sacred Heart
University
Faculty Instructional Resources Questionnaire
A Summary of Feedback Results
By the SHU OER Coordination Team
Spring 2017

2. Feedback Responses
This survey was administered to SHU faculty in spring 2017
Respondents by Affiliation*
144 total Faculty
Responses
College of Arts and Science – 46
College of Nursing – 19
College of Health Professions – 16
Farrington College of Education – 6
School of Computing – 2
English Language Institute – 1
School of Communications and Media Arts – 1
Welch College of Business - 14
*95 Responses to Affiliation
Teaching Status

4. How are required course materials licensed?
Printed Textbooks*
• Copyrighted - 126 (88.7%)
• Public Domain – 31 (21.8%)
• Creative Commons – 11 (7.7%)
• NA/Don’t Know – 10 (7%)
• Other – 6 (4.2%)
*142 Responses
Qualitative Comments
• “My Own Material”
• “Supplemental Materials – News
Sources, And Full-Text Research
Articles.”
• “Required Text Which Is
Copyrighted.”

5. How are required course materials licensed?
Digital Textbooks*
• Copyrighted - 49 (55.1%)
• Public Domain – 17 (19.1%)
• Creative Commons – 10 (11.2%)
• NA/Don’t Know – 25 (28.1%)
• Other – 2 (2.2%)
*89 Responses
Qualitative Comments
• “My Own Material”
• ”Supplemental Materials – News
Sources, Full-Text Research Articles.”
• “Required Text Which Is Copyrighted.”
• “Digital Textbooks for my course not
available or not using digital textbooks.”

6. How are required course materials licensed?
Print Materials Other Than Textbook(s)*
• Copyrighted - 45 (42.5%)
• Public Domain – 52 (49.1%)
• Creative Commons – 16 (15.1%)
• NA/Don’t Know – 20 (18.9%)
• Other – 8 (7.5%)
*108 Responses
Qualitative Comments
“Copyrighted Print Material, But Under the
Fair Use Clause.’”
”Original Material and Instructor Own
Lecture Notes.”
“Information From Organizations such as
IHI, the CDC, and Other Websites.”
“Xerox Passages From A Text and I Create
Worksheets and Other materials to use in
class.”

7. How are required course materials licensed?
Digital Materials Other Than Textbook(s)*
• Copyrighted - 45 (42.5%)
• Public Domain – 52 (49.1%)
• Creative Commons – 16 (15.1%)
• NA/Don’t Know – 20 (18.9%)
• Other – 8 (7.5%)
*106 Responses
“Faculty authored materials.”
“Created slide decks with copyrighted
material from textbooks and other
materials.”
“Copyrighted Material available from library
resources.’”
”instructor lecture videos on echo360.”
“YouTube Materials, TED Talks, and Khan
Academy.”
“Incorporate games such as jeopardy in
the class.”
“Links to Digital material available through
the SHU Library.”
“Internet Resources.”

8. If You Use OER, Please Share an Example From
Your Teaching Experience?
Currently Using OER Materials
• Open Textbooks
• Open source Video Materials
• Websites and Web Resources
• Social Media and Blogs
• Google Analytics,
• Academic Articles,
• Gamification
OER Materials (Non-Use)
• Don’t Know What Is Available
• Not Available In My Field
• Not Currently Using OER
Materials

9. What Faculty Development Supports/Resources Would
Help You To Integrate OER In Your Teaching Practice?
Workshops - Introduction, Best Practices, Instruction for Course Integration
Library Support - OER List/Database By Discipline, How To Search, OER Resources
to Library
Faculty Support - Time To Research and Integrate, Syllabi, Course Release,
OER Publishing - Support for Publishing OER Resources for Tenure
Support Materials - Test Banks Questions, and Tutorial Resources
OER Materials - Not Available In My Field, Easy Student Access, Primary Sources,
Connection to Learning Outcomes, More Materials Relevant to Course

10. When Selecting Required
Course Materials, How
Important are the following
factors in your selection?

11. 1 = not important 5 = very important

12. 1 = not important 5 = very important

13. 1 = not important 5 = very important

14. 1 = not important 5 = very important

15. 1 = not important 5 = very important

16. 1 = not important 5 = very important

17. 1 = not important 5 = very important

18. 1 = not important 5 = very important

19. 1 = not important 5 = very important

20. Credits
The SHU OER coordination team was involved in all the steps of this survey
process – creation, administration, and compilation of results The members of this
team are:
Project carried out under the advise of the OER Faculty task-force.
The Provost, Dr. Rupendra Paliwal provided overall guidance.
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◎ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival
◎ Photographs by Unsplash & Death to the Stock Photo (license)
◎ Open Education Resource Image by Google
Office of Digital Learning SHU library
Jaya Kannan
Colette Rossingol and Barbara Gerwien
Chelsea Stone and
Zach Claybaugh