33 SPEC Kit 351: Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources
Additional comments N=4
Note: new course design and course redesign handled by another unit, Center for Online and Distance
Learning, with whom we are working closely and hope to have a relationship beneficial to both units.
Office of Distance Education and eLearning (ODEE) has staff support for the publication of openly
licensed books or other learning objects (e.g., editing, formatting, and other traditional publication
services). University Center for the Advancement of Teaching (UCAT) does new course design support
including open/affordable content and support for identifying (searching/finding) affordable content
for a course.
Promotes the good work of faculty who participate in our alternate textbook project.
We provide funding support for the purchase of additional print and electronic course materials, but
generally speaking not textbooks.
24. If your library provides or plans to provide educational services to faculty, please indicate which
topics are covered. Check all that apply. N=40
Services Currently
provides
Plans to
provide
N
Author’s rights 37 4 40
Open licensing 32 5 36
How/where to deposit open materials 31 5 35
Open publishing 28 6 33
Copyright contract negotiation 23 4 27
Innovative pedagogy 12 3 14
Other topic 2 2 3
Total Responses 39 12 40
If you selected Other topic/Currently provides, please briefly describe the topic. N=2
Impact of OER use on student success
The libraries’ Scholarly Communications Officer consults or teaches on all of these, however, the faculty
development center provides more services in the area of innovative pedagogy.
If you selected Other topic/Plans to provide, please briefly describe the topic. N=2
Impact of OER use on student success support for authoring, licensing, hosting, and distributing OER
(in conjunction with campus academic computing resources).
Support creation projects: programming, platform support, etc. Innovative pedagogy addressed by
other units coordinating efforts.
Additional comments N=3
How to find and evaluate OER and affordable course content. How and where to deposit new content.
Many support activities provided by Digital Scholarship Librarian but not specifically under ACC/OER
umbrella. Similarly, reserves and liaison work occasionally support activities, again not currently under
a specific ACC/OER initiative.
Others in the library provide support for open educational materials that are not formally labeled
as OER, for example, open projects and materials created by faculty and staff in history, public and
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