10 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
BACKGROUND
1. Has any part of your institution implemented an initiative that is focused on encouraging faculty
to adopt, adapt, or create affordable course content/open educational resources for teaching and
learning? N=65
Yes 37 57%
An initiative is in the planning stage 9 14%
Not yet, but we plan to investigate the possibility in the near future 12 18%
No, and we have no plans for such an initiative at this time 7 11%
If yes or an initiative is in the planning stage, is the initiative focused on affordable content or
openly licensed course content (i.e., OER) or both? N=46
Affordable course content 2 4%
Openly licensed course content 12 26%
Both 32 70%
Comments N=12
Openly licensed course content N=6
Library is participating in new Open Textbook Network (OTN) initiative through Boston
Library Consortium.
Mainly OER, but it is possible that library-subscribed materials or “free online” but not openly licensed
contents also be used. A separate program outside of the OpenEd initiative purchases print (reserve) &
multi-user licensed textbooks when requested or at the initiative of the liaison librarian. These are the
most popular parts of our collection in terms of circulation numbers.
Mostly focused around re-shareable content for open online courses.
Since 2007, University Extension has published ~100 courses, 200+ seminars and conferences, and
thousands of individual course video lectures. The single largest initiative has been OpenChem (16
courses), which is now catalogued as learning resource at the library.
The libraries license some content such as exam preparation materials, e-books, and streaming media
that are also used as curricular materials.
We suspect that the activities occurring at the university (within and outside the library) are less
formal than at other institutions so far, but we wanted to respond to this survey with as much info as
possible about the OER-related activities that we do.
Both N=5
The initiatives are those of independent faculty members.
The president’s office has announced a pilot grant program to incentivize faculty to adopt open course
content. The Libraries will be planning the program after April 1st and will probably expand the scope
to include affordable content to extend the options available to faculty participants.
We encourage faculty to use online library materials in addition to open content.
We have a LOT of these programs, and it’s going to be quite hard for me to distinguish between them.
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