17 SPEC Kit 351: Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources
adaptation, and/or creation and promote ACC adoption and/or OER adoption, adaptation, and/
or creation.
Promote adoption, keep the organization they represent informed, promote new stipend program
(2016) initiated by the faculty member, provide expertise to faculty who are interested in OER.
Still partially determining the role of the committee.
The governing body is still new so may take on some of the other roles later.
To review OER/ACC proposals.
7. Please enter any additional comments you may have about the initiative’s governing body. N=12
Annual updates on the program are provided to the Library Policy Committee, which is the libraries’
faculty and student advisory committee.
At this point the governing body is not governing much. It is not at a point where we are exploring what
the body should look like and who should participate. We think we have the right participants but just
need to organize better.
At this point, the library is responsible for implementation and governing and the partners are
advocates, supporters, and review OER proposals.
I’m not sure about the governing body. The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship might
have an advisory board for ITEL, but I’m not certain of the details.
It is critical to have a wide mix of representatives from administration to faculty to librarians to
bookstore to students, etc.
Our OER steering committee will be meeting for the first time on March 30th and includes
representatives from the Libraries, Teaching &Learning Center, Information Technologies
(instructional design), University Press, University Bookstore, Student Government (ASUW), Disability
Resources for Students, and Undergraduate Academic Affairs.
Several departments have worked with our campus bookstore to publish “affordable” course content.
These projects are not connected, except by the bookstore involvement. The Libraries have created
an OER Interest Group that is working to share information and educate about OER with interested
stakeholders including the bookstore, educational technology staffing, and some faculty.
Specific participants and roles will be determined before we convene the group.
The Textbook Affordability Task Force is a short-term appointed body and met only enough times
to develop a set of recommendations to the provost. It is as yet to be seen what will become of those
recommendations or how they will be implemented.
This is a grassroots effort to encourage understanding, incorporation, sharing, and creation of OER
content. Consideration of re-envisioning instruction is a desired by-product.
This is an initiative that would benefit from a local committee.
We don’t have a governing body. Each entity primarily leads their own initiative with loose
coordination. Other campus partners—central IT, college level ed tech support, Center for Educational
Innovation (former Center for Teaching and Learning)—serve as advocates for the initiatives
and services.
SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR ACC/OER INITIATIVES
8. What are the sources of funding for the initiative? Check all that apply. N=39
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