13 SPEC Kit 351: Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources
We’re working with multiple academic and administrative departments on implementation and
expansion, and our plans are to engage them all in this effort.
Local or regional consortium N=6
Boston Library Consortium/Open Textbook Network
Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative
GALILEO, Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia
Inter-University Council of Ohio (IUC)
OCUL [Ontario Council of University Libraries]
UALC [Utah Academic Library Consortium]
Other entity N=5
A small group of students has formed with an initiative to reduce costs of texts for students. They
contacted the faculty lead to explore collaboration.
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
Teaching, learning, and technology roundtable (not part of formal governance structure)
Undergraduate Student Government (USG)
Virginia History Lab, Jefferson Trust, Alumni Hall
ACC/OER INITIATIVE GOVERNANCE
3. What is the structure of the governing body that is responsible for guiding and/or executing the
ACC/OER initiative? N=41
Standing committee 7 17%
Limited term task force/working group 9 22%
Other structure 25 61%
Please briefly describe the other structure. N=25
A group of faculty, librarians, and students won a grant award from the Office of Digital Learning to
explore open educational resources, specifically open textbooks, at the university.
A working group composed of members from Libraries’ Scholarly Publishing Team, Research &Library
Instruction, and Center for Teaching.
A working group with representatives from the faculty development center, the libraries, the university
press, and the bookstore was convened by the faculty member in 2012. This group has evolved to be a
volunteer advisory group, without term limits. At the university system level there are new initiatives
underway such as an application for an NSF grant to support OERs system-wide. Support and
willingness are there and initial efforts have been taken. The rest of the responses in this survey apply
to the grassroots efforts initiated by the faculty member in library and information science.
An unofficial partnership between Libraries, Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE),
University Student Government (USG), University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and the
Office of Academic Affairs.
We’re working with multiple academic and administrative departments on implementation and
expansion, and our plans are to engage them all in this effort.
Local or regional consortium N=6
Boston Library Consortium/Open Textbook Network
Campus Alberta Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative
GALILEO, Board of Regents for the University System of Georgia
Inter-University Council of Ohio (IUC)
OCUL [Ontario Council of University Libraries]
UALC [Utah Academic Library Consortium]
Other entity N=5
A small group of students has formed with an initiative to reduce costs of texts for students. They
contacted the faculty lead to explore collaboration.
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
Teaching, learning, and technology roundtable (not part of formal governance structure)
Undergraduate Student Government (USG)
Virginia History Lab, Jefferson Trust, Alumni Hall
ACC/OER INITIATIVE GOVERNANCE
3. What is the structure of the governing body that is responsible for guiding and/or executing the
ACC/OER initiative? N=41
Standing committee 7 17%
Limited term task force/working group 9 22%
Other structure 25 61%
Please briefly describe the other structure. N=25
A group of faculty, librarians, and students won a grant award from the Office of Digital Learning to
explore open educational resources, specifically open textbooks, at the university.
A working group composed of members from Libraries’ Scholarly Publishing Team, Research &Library
Instruction, and Center for Teaching.
A working group with representatives from the faculty development center, the libraries, the university
press, and the bookstore was convened by the faculty member in 2012. This group has evolved to be a
volunteer advisory group, without term limits. At the university system level there are new initiatives
underway such as an application for an NSF grant to support OERs system-wide. Support and
willingness are there and initial efforts have been taken. The rest of the responses in this survey apply
to the grassroots efforts initiated by the faculty member in library and information science.
An unofficial partnership between Libraries, Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE),
University Student Government (USG), University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and the
Office of Academic Affairs.
