Campus Entities Most Active in Efforts Advancing OER:

• Academic Department
• Academic/Information Technology
• Campus Store
• E-Learning/Distance Education
• Faculty Champions(s)
• Library
• Student Government
• Teaching and Learning Center
• Other

Library Departments Active in Efforts Advancing OER:

• Scholarly Communication
• Subject Liaisons
• Teaching & Learning

Academic Subjects With Greatest OER Traction:

• Chemistry
• Mathematics and statistics

Mechanisms to Support OER Included in the Following:

• Library Services
• New Faculty Orientation
• Professional Development
• University Press/Publishing

OER Staff Location:

• Library

The GVSU Libraries' Publishing Services offer faculty a platform for distributing openly-licensed textbooks and other course materials, through the institutional repository ScholarWorks@GVSU. This platform also provides a suite of tools to support open access journal publication and conference management. The Libraries provide training and support for faculty using these services, maintain and administer the platform, and offer information on copyright, open access publishing practices, and related issues.

Note about program funding: because this program is closely integrated into the Libraries' broader scholarly communications program and encompasses many forms of publishing activity, it is not possible to delineate specific funding for the Publishing Services program. The Libraries' resources supporting this program include one full time staff position (Publishing Services Manager), the Digital Commons repository/publishing platform, and highly-variable amounts of time from a faculty librarian and a second staff member.

Program Type:

• Publishing/Development Program

Duration: 03/2012 - Present

Scope: OER (open course content)

Primary OER Strategy: OER Publication

Secondary OER Strategies: OER Adaptation, OER Curation

Unit Housing the Program:

Library

Program Partners:

• Library

Source of Program Funding:

• Library departmental budget

Funding from Library Departments:

• Collections & Technical Services
• Scholarly Communications

Incentives Offered by the Program:

• Technical assistance
• Other: A publishing platform; support uploading OER to the platform and updating previously-published OER.

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Other Resource

Grand Valley State University's OER Initiative is a working group raising awareness of OER and promoting services to support the exploration, adoption, and creation of OER by GVSU faculty. Coordinated by the University Libraries, the OER Initiative includes five academic and administrative units who work closely with faculty:

• The University Libraries enable faculty to identify high-quality OER for their courses and to publish their own OER online, via ScholarWorks@GVSU.
• The Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence encourages OER-focused sabbatical projects and offers grant funding to cover publishing-related costs.
• The Laker Store assists faculty in selecting affordable and effective course materials, including OER.
• The eLearning and Emerging Technologies division helps faculty use and create OER for effective online instruction.
• The Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center provides grants and professional development programming for faculty interested in integrating OER into innovative, engaging instructional practice.

The OER Initiative is currently focused on promoting OER to the campus community and highlighting the existing services through which each partner is able to support OER.

Program Type:

• Task Force/Committee

Duration: 11/2015 - Present

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

Primary OER Strategy: OER Awareness

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

Unit Housing the Program:

Library

Program Partners:

• Academic/Information Technology
• Campus Store
• Library
• Teaching and Learning Center
• Other

Source of Program Funding:

• Not Applicable

Incentives Offered by the Program:

• Instructional design assistance
• Technical assistance
• Professional development
• Other: Note: the OER Initiative's incentives are not restricted to OER; rather, OER projects are eligible for the partners' existing resources and services. While grants are available, no OER-specific grants have been disbursed since the group formed.

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A campus-level faculty/student task force proposed by GVSU Student Senate and officially established by the University Academic Senate and the Provost. The task force is charged to identify and recommend strategies for the university to increase the use and creation of open and/or affordable learning materials. Members include three faculty OER advocates, two Student Senate representatives, and two library faculty.

As of Fall 2018, the task force is developing an environmental scan of textbook and course material choices (by faculty and students) at GVSU, to inform subsequent recommendations.

Program Type:

• Task Force/Committee

Duration: 08/2018 - 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 Publication, OER Review/Assessment

Unit Housing the Program:

Faculty Senate or Union

Program Partners:

• Faculty Senate or Union
• Library
• Senior Administration
• Student Government

Source of Program Funding:

• Not Applicable

Incentives Offered by the Program:

• Not applicable

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Other Resource

A panel discussion featuring GVSU faculty members who have chosen open in their teaching and scholarly work, exploring the benefits of open, how this shapes their professional practices, and how students and scholars can work together for a more open, affordable, equitable academic environment.

Date: Oct. 26, 2016

Event Type:

• Panel/Roundtable

Scope: Cost-free course content, including OER

Approximate Attendees: 10

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News Coverage

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This collection includes 12 OER published through the GVSU Libraries' publishing platform & institutional repository, ScholarWorks@GVSU. Each resource was created by one or more GVSU faculty authors, and is aimed at a student audience.

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A 1-page overview of the GVSU OER Initiative, with a brief description of what OER are and how OER benefit students and faculty, as well as examples of how the Initiative partners are able to support OER exploration, adoption, and creation.

Resource Citation:
OER Initiative Overview (title); Grand Valley State University (creator).

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A collection of openly-licensed teaching tools and related OER by GVSU authors, published through the GVSU Libraries' repository and publishing platform, ScholarWorks@GVSU.

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A collection of resources to help GVSU faculty find open-licensed textbooks and other educational materials for their courses.

Resource Permissions:
All Rights Reserved

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An extensive series of freely-available videos, most with open licenses, supporting mathematics instruction. Many of the screencasts serve to supplement or repeat lecture content, and some are directly aligned with mathematics OER created by GVSU authors.