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Open Education

University of Oregon

Eugene, OR, United States
Official Website @uoregon

Type: Public 4-Year, Research University
Annual Enrollment: 24,096

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Overview

The University of Oregon is a flagship public research university located in Eugene, Oregon. The University of Oregon Libraries are the main academic unit on campus supporting OER efforts and they sponsor an OER initiative to help faculty locate low and no-cost course materials to replace high-cost alternatives.

The library actively collaborates with the Coordinator for Statewide Open Education Library Services in the state of Oregon for faculty development and grant funding opportunities at the state level. The library partners with other units on campus extend and maximize OER efforts, namely student government, Office of the Provost, the Teaching Engagement Program, UO Online, and the college bookstore. Beginning in Fall 2020, the library will help to co-lead a Textbook Affordability Task Force, with joint support from University Senate and Office of the Provost.

Based upon the recommendations from a 2018 OER Working Group that researched open education/OER best practices and provided recommendations about programmatic processes, resources, and infrastructure needed, UO Libraries hired a two-year, pro-tem eLearning & OER Librarian in Spring 2019 to lead OER efforts on campus. The library also began an open textbook grant pilot program to provide funding to faculty interested in remixing or authoring an open textbooks in Winter 2020, but the pandemic derailed the timelime of the initial pilot. The library chose to fund one open textbook project in 2020, and plans to relaunch and continue the program in the near future.

For more information, please get in touch:
Rayne Vieger
, eLearning & OER Librarian | raynev@uoregon.edu
Franny Gaede, Head of Digital Scholarship Services | mfgaede@uoregon.edu

Campus Details

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OER Programs

Textbook Affordability Task Force

The Textbook Affordability Task Force is jointly sponsored by Office of the Provost and University Senate. This task force will be creating a textbook affordability strategic plan in response to the legislative requirements of Oregon House Bill 2213.

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Duration: 09/2020 - Present

Scope: Affordable course content, including cost-free course content and OER

Primary OER Strategy: OER Adoption

Secondary OER Strategies: OER Adaptation, OER Awareness, OER Curation, OER Pedagogy, OER Publication, OER Review/Assessment, OER Research

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UO Libraries OER Grant Pilot Program

The goal of this pilot program is to support faculty on campus who are interested in adopting or remixing existing OER materials to save their students money. This includes high-impact (e.g., high cost intersected with high enrollment) courses, as well as those that aren't currently eligible for state grant funding, such as upper division and graduate courses.

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Duration: 09/2019 - Present

Scope: Affordable course content, including cost-free course content and OER

Primary OER Strategy: OER Adoption

Secondary OER Strategies: OER Adaptation, OER Curation, OER Pedagogy, OER Publication

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Total Program Funding to Date: $ 40,000

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Conditions: Recipients are required to openly license and freely share resources created or adapted

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OER Events

Open Access Week 2019: Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge

The library offered a series of events to celebrate open access week, including an open access fair, an OER Review Workshop, an open access journal editors panel, and a film screening.

Date: Oct. 21, 2019 - Oct. 27, 2019

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Approximate Attendees: 10

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Open Ed Week 2020

UO Libraries partnered with Open Oregon to provide a series of Open Education Week programming, including an OER Course Redesign Sprint, webinars, an OER Review Workshop, and an OER "petting zoo."

Date: March 2, 2020 - March 6, 2020

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Scope: OER (open course content)

Approximate Attendees: 19

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Open Oregon OER Review Workshop

The library co-hosts an OER Review Workshop on a quarterly basis in collaboration with the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s (HECC) Open Oregon Educational Resources. In this workshop, faculty participants learn more about OER, how to locate quality OERs online, and how to serve as a peer reviewer. Following the workshop, any faculty workshop attendee who submitted a peer review of an OER on the Open Textbook Library recieved a $200 stipend.

Date: Jan. 22, 2020 - Jan. 22, 2020

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Scope: Affordable course content, including cost-free course content and OER

Approximate Attendees: 10

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Summer Teaching Institute: OER Workshop

This workshop was a piece of a week-long teaching institute for faculty to redesign a previously face to face class to be a fully online course. In the OER workshop, faculty participants learned about the basics of OER, how to locate them, how to evaluate them, and what the licenses behind them mean. Print copies of OER were passed around for faculty to interact with and review. Participants also learned about aligned course design using OER, and how to use open educational practices and open pedagogy to transform the learning experience of their online learners.

Date: July 14, 2020 - July 15, 2020

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Scope: Affordable course content, including cost-free course content and OER

Approximate Attendees: 50

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Point of Contact

Rayne Vieger
eLearning and OER Librarian