University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA, United States
Official Website
• @uiowa
Type: Public 4-Year, Research University
Annual Enrollment: 29,970
OER LibGuide
Overview
The University of Iowa supports OER in a variety of ways, including: (1) Inventivize faculty to use OER through OpenHawks, a campus-wide grant program that funds faculty efforts to replace their current textbooks with Open Educational Resources (OER) for enhanced student success; (2) Develop a well-defined OER strategy through a common definition, campus-wide marketing, and collaborative initiatives that lead to increased OER use. (2) Create reporting and tracking mechanisms to monitor OER use, trends, and cost savings to UI students; (3) Encourage and support collaborative OER initiatives that include the UI Libraries, the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology (OTLT), the colleges, and University of Iowa Student Government (UISG); (4) Create a web presence that highlights this important work and provides resources and contact information for faculty and instructors looking to adopt and/or create OER content for use in UI courses; and (6) Support and encourage existing alliances and initiatives that support OER use such as the statewide Iowa OER Action Team, the OTLT’s Learning Design Collaboratory, the Unizin consortium, membership in the Open Textbook Network, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
In addition, UI Libraries has taken the following actions toward increasing the use of OER: (1) Commissioned the S+R Ithaka Faculty Survey to gauge faculty awareness of scholarly communications issues; (2) Devoted staff resources to open education, such as the hiring of a scholarly communications librarian and the Libraries' Scholarly Publishing Team; (3) Joined Open Textbook Network (OTN) and participated in OTN’s summer programming; (4) Held faculty programming on OER; (5) Provided $5,000 worth of stipends for faculty to review OER; (6) Held conversations with the university bookstore about OER; (7) Applied for Federal funding for Iowa Open Textbook Initiative in collaboration with Regents Universities and continue to pursue joint projects; and (8)Launched Textbook Affordability Pilot in collaboration with student government.
Campus Details
Campus Entities Most Active in Efforts Advancing OER:
- Academic Department
- Academic/Information Technology
- Assistive Technology or Disability Services Office
- Campus Store
- Communications Office
- Faculty Champions(s)
- Library
- Senior Administration
- Student Government
- Teaching and Learning Center
- Other
Library Departments Active in Efforts Advancing OER:
- Administration
- Scholarly Communication
- Subject Liaisons
Academic Subjects With Greatest OER Traction:
- Arts
- Business and administration
- Chemistry
- Earth sciences
- Economics
- Education
- Engineering and engineering trades
- Health (incl. medicine, nursing)
- Languages
- Library, information and archival studies
- Mathematics and statistics
- Physics
- Social and behavioral sciences
- Sociology and cultural studies
- Welfare (incl. social work)
Mechanisms to Support OER Included in the Following:
- Course/Curriculum Design/Redesign
- Library Services
OER Staff Location:
- Library
Point of Contact
Mahrya Burnett
Scholarly Communications Librarian
@MahryaCarncross