Open SUNY Textbooks and SUNY OER Services are the State University of New York's system-wide OER publishing and support initiatives described in this presentation. Authors are Kate Pitcher, formerly of SUNY Geneseo; Allison Brown, Publiciations Manager of Open SUNY Textbooks, and Laura Murray, OER Coordinator for SUNY OER Services.

3. Outline
A Brief History
Transition
Building a New Model for SUNY

4. A Brief History

5. Brief history of OST
3 major goals
1. Reduce the costs of textbooks to students.
1. Create opportunities for teaching and learning.
1. Libraries collaborate and learn how to publish textbooks.

6. The College at Brockport
Monroe Community College
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
SUNY Fredonia
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Morrisville
SUNY Oswego
SUNY Press
Upstate Medical University
University at Buffalo
Libraries and organizations involved in pilot

7. Incentives
• $3,000 for authors in both rounds of funding
• An additional $1,000 was given to authors using student assessment or
feedback in the textbook creation or editing process
• $1,000 for peer reviewers in first round; $300 in second
• 1 peer review/book in first round; 2 reviews/book in second

8. Outcomes
16 published textbooks, openly licensed
6 in writing, peer review, or production phase
125,000+ downloads
MOOCs
Faculty adoptions
Community development
Brand awareness

9. Building a New Model
for SUNY

10. Service Model

11. Building a new model

12. Service model framework

13. Placeholder for intake form screenshot

15. Business model
1.Grants
2.Fees
3.Membership

16. TE

17. SUNY OER
Services
OER Course Delivery Support
$10/student enrolled
OST Publishing Platform
Authoring tools and support
OST Help Desk
Technical support
Institutional and individual
consultations
OST Mentorship Network
Program
OER Success Framework
Tier A
Basic Membership

18. SUNY OER
Services
and FTE
All of Tier A benefits:
OST Course Delivery Support
OST Publishing Platform
OST Help Desk - Footprints
OER Cataloging
OST Mentorship Network Program
OER Success Framework
Plus:
Consulting, training, and professional
development services
OST Advisory Council membership
Tier B
Parternship

19. Help Desk
Our Associate Provost for Academic Technology
and Information Services (ATIS) at the system
level has given us a project and “agent”
licenses on the ATIS Help Desk server
(Footprints) as part of the commitment to our
start-up.
We can offer a knowledgebase and flexible
context-sensitive issue creation forms.
A robust help desk application is a huge help to

20. Web Site - http://textbooks.opensuny.org/
The Open SUNY Textbook and SUNY
OER Services web site is in
Wordpress.
We can distribute editing
responsibilities and be facile and
responsive in supporting users and
our staff conducting workshops.
It is a challenge to support open
publishing distribution and a suite of
OER services!

21. Professional Development Services
One staff member is also an instructional designer and everyone has design
and teaching experience.
We are developing a course in OER that is specific to SUNY OER Services to
be offered F2F, online facilitated, and self-paced.
Meantime, there are open OER courses developed in SUNY that anyone can
access!
Webinar and workshop content is under continual development and
enhancement.

22. OER Cataloging
One of the services we were asked by the SUNY System to offer is the
cataloging of OER deliverables from Innovative Instructional Technology
Grants (IITG).
We developed a cataloging process for these OER in the SUNY-wide digital
repository and have the commitment of the system Office of Library and
Information Services to help build this IITG collection!
https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/67817

23. IITG in the SUNY Digital Repository

24. Project Management Tools
Airtable https://airtable.com/ (integrated with SLACK)
Google docs
SLACK

26. textbooks.opensuny.org
Email: ost@geneseo.edu
Allison Brown:
browna@geneseo.edu
Kate Pitcher:
pitcher@geneseo.edu
Laura Murray:
laura.murray@suny.edu
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