Redlands, CA, United States
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Type: Private 4-Year
Annual Enrollment: 5,333
Familiarity with OER is building at the University of Redlands, as are concerted efforts to support faculty in the adoption, adaption, and creation of OER. In 2019-2020, four faculty members (including one member from the library and one member from our Teaching and Learning Center) received an institutional grant to advance OER at our institution. In the summer of 2021, a small group comprised of faculty and information technologists came together to build momentum as we emerge from pandemic lockdowns.
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Four faculty, including one member from the library and one from the Teaching & Learning Center, have received a grant from the Provost's Office to advance OER at our institution. We will devote most of the funds to faculty mini-grants and work in conjunction with the new Associate Provost for the Learning Commons and Director of Armacost Library.
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Duration: 09/2019 - 06/2020
Scope: OER (open course content)
Primary OER Strategy: OER Awareness
Secondary OER Strategies: OER Adaptation, OER Adoption, OER Pedagogy, OER Publication, OER Review/Assessment
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Total Program Funding to Date: $ 9,500
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Conditions: Recipients are encouraged to openly license and freely share resources created or adapted
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In our efforts to “heighten student achievement” and “advance professional development,” this seminar serves to provide faculty with a safe, learning environment to share ideas, ask questions, challenge and encourage one another while exploring open ways of learning and scholarship. Although some of us already practice openness in our work, we do so independent from each other. This seminar can hopefully change that by allowing faculty to identify supports and incentives needed to help reclaim scholarship for scholars, and help reduce financial barriers to learning. Our group will discuss actions we might take in a personal capacity (as researchers, collaborators, editors, educators) and collectively within our departments, campuses, and disciplines.
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Duration: 09/2017 - 04/2018
Program Webpage: https://learn.redlands.edu/course/view.php?id=10950
Primary OER Strategy: OER Awareness
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Total Program Funding to Date: $ 2,000
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Over lunch, faculty interested in OER will discuss OER with faculty involved in the previous year's multidisciplinary faculty seminar on open access and open educational resources.
Date: Oct. 2, 2018 - Oct. 2, 2018
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Scope: OER (open course content)
Approximate Attendees: 18
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News Coverage
The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) invites you to spend lunchtime on Thursday of Open Access Week learning about Open Education Resource (OER) Programs at Private Liberal Arts Institutions.
In the last 30 years, textbook costs have risen by over 800%. Twenty-seven states across the U.S., including California, have passed some form of textbook affordability legislation2. In response, OER programs have erupted at public colleges and universities across the nation. Private liberal arts institutions have been slower to create programming to address textbook affordability issues, and this panel highlights library-faculty partnerships in three such programs--at Abilene Christian University (Abilene, TX), Macalester College (St. Paul, MN), and University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA).
Date: Oct. 25, 2018 - Oct. 25, 2018
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Scope: OER (open course content)
Approximate Attendees: 4
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Promotional Material
A blog post informing readers about OER and upcoming events.
Informs students and faculty about the impacts that the planned merger between Cengage and McGraw Hill could mean. Also references that a group of faculty have been awarded funds in 2019-2020 to help support faculty with the creation, adoption, and adaption of OER.
Paige Mann
Assistant Director for Public Services | Scholarly Communications Librarian | STEM Librarian
@paigekmann