The document summarizes the UTA CARES (Coalition for Alternative Resources in Education for Students) program which promotes the use of open educational resources (OER) and alternative textbooks to make education more affordable and accessible for students. It provides an agenda for their meeting which includes introductions, understanding alternative resources, and opportunities for information sharing and strategic planning regarding OER adoption and development. Specific examples are given of how OER have saved students and the university hundreds of thousands of dollars. The objectives of the program are to share information about available OER and strategically plan for increased OER use through policies, grants, and a statewide OER repository.

1. UTA CARES
Coalition for Alternative Resources
in Education for Students
https://www.slideshare.net/oelib

2. Agenda
• Introductions
• Group Photo
• Understanding Alternative Resources
• Objectives
• Other Opportunities

3. Alternative Resources
• Open Textbooks
• Other Open Educational Resources
• Public Resources
• Library Resources
• Low-Cost Resources

4. Why Alternative Resources?
“… higher
education shall
be equally
accessible to all”

5. Why Alternative Resources?
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/freshman-year/college-textbook-prices-have-risen-812-percent-1978-n399926

6. Why Alternative Resources?
https://youtu.be/UAFodc-Egc8

7. Open Textbooks
Full textbooks that are completely free (including from fees)
and that are openly licensed (e.g., Creative Commons, public
domain) so they can be legally modified. See the Open
Textbook Library for examples.

9. Creative Commons
• Copy
• Share
• Edit
• Keep
• Use
• Mix

10. Other OER
Resources other than textbooks (e.g., videos, modules,
handouts, websites) that are completely free (including from
fees) and that are openly licensed to allow for reuse.

11. Public Resources
Materials that are completely free (including
from fees) for the public to access but that are
fully protected by copyright.

12. Library Resources
Library-licensed materials that are free for students because
the library (or another institutional unit) provides
subscription access to the content. This includes scholarly
articles from databases and e-books from the Libraries'
collection.

13. Low-Cost Resources
Course materials that cost students $25 or
less (in total).

14. Open Textbooks

15. From Summer 2016 to
Summer 2017, UTA’s
Department of History
saved nearly 4,000
students over $388,700 by
using an open textbook in
online sections of History
1311 and 1312.

16. Other OER

17. Dr. Allan Saxe has saved
UTA students over
$561,000 since Fall
2010 by using public
domain materials in his
courses.

18. Public Resources

19. Library Resources

20. Low-Cost Resources

21. Objectives
• Information Sharing
• Strategic Planning

22. Information Sharing
I'm excited to announce the publication of 4 new open textbooks
created by PSU faculty for PSU courses. They include:
Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français
niveaux intermédiaire et avancé, by Annabelle Dolidon and
Stéphanie Roulon.
Stories of Avenirs is a textbook based on nine French science
fiction news targeted at an audience of foreign (intermediate and
advanced) learners but also a native audience wishing to deepen
its knowledge of modern science fiction - after a preliminary
chapter which recalls the historical bases of the genre. The
manual proposes a holistic approach (stylistic, linguistic, and
intercultural) and asks for critical thinking through reading,
interpretation, conversation, research and presentations, with a
twofold objective: to develop French language skills in
contemporary subjects through fiction; and to introduce French
and francophone science fiction to foreign learners.

23. Information Sharing
Hello everyone!
OpenStax is in the beginning stages of developing a business series
(expected publication in 2019)!
All OpenStax, Rice University OER texts are expert-written, peer-reviewed,
match standard scope and sequence, and meet the same quality
standards as traditional publisher texts. Currently, our texts are used in
over 10% of introductory courses in the U.S. (per 2016 Babson Survey).
Faculty who author/contribute/peer-review the texts receive
compensation (the contact below can provide details).
Can you please forward this to your faculty?
I’ve also included some details below on some upcoming webinars we are
hosting.
I hope you all have a good day!
Nicole

24. Information Sharing
Do you know any Psychology faculty interested in OER?
We're close to having a full set of slide decks to accompany Principles of
Social Psychology, an open textbook adapted by Rajiv Jhangiani and
Hammond Tarry at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Ancillary materials are
one of the key features faculty look for when choosing whether to adopt a
text, and we want to help build them up around this book so it can make
its way into more classrooms and benefit more students. The last three
chapters needing slide decks are:
Chapter 10 - Working Groups: Performance and Decision Making
Chapter 11 - Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Chapter 12 - Competition and Cooperation in Our Social Worlds
Slide authors will be provided with a model deck and an excellent set of
guidelines produced by contributor to the project, Kristie Dukewitch. If
you know of someone in your institution who might be interested in this
project, please encourage them to get involved. To volunteer their talents,
they can visit the project page in the forum and let us know which chapter
they'd like to take on!

25. Strategic Planning
• Require disclosure of OER as textbook & searchable list
of OER courses
• Establish OER grant program to encourage development
and adoption of OER
• Conduct feasibility study of statewide OER repository

26. Other Opportunities
• Grant Program: http://libguides.uta.edu/utacares
• Open Education Week:
https://www.openeducationweek.org/
• Accessibility Evaluations

27. Thank You!