42 Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Librarians have leveraged current e-book licensing and sharing available texts with instructors for
integration into courses.
Lots of individual outreach and information gathering among campus partners to date
OER presentation during Open Access Week
Our incentive grants have had the greatest impact on reaching out to faculty and working to create/
adopt/adapt affordable content or open resources. Expanding our reach by educating other colleagues
(outside the libraries) who work with faculty on course design about our services has also had the most
impact. We have engaged with faculty through a variety of workshops.
Outreach to faculty using course packs has been very successful.
Participating in faculty development programs around shifting to online and blending learning.
Participating in institutional MOOC project. Consulting to individual faculty through course reserves,
liaison, instructional, or reference services.
Primarily we have gotten faculty to stop using commercial textbooks and start using affordable course
content and OER. Not only is this our way of engaging faculty but we know that the faculty who
participate in our project have influenced their colleagues to seek alternate approaches to delivering
curricular learning content.
Receiving referrals and working with faculty at the point of need. Integrating ‘Open’ into copyright
instruction. Offering open textbook adoption workshops through training provided by the Open
Textbook Network. Collaborating with instructional designers to get access to faculty in the course re-
design process.
Successful workshops and outreach
The academic liaison has coordinated information table displays in the library for OER Week and
OA Week, sent outreach email to faculty, met with interested individual instructors who contact him
directly, and communicated with graduate teaching assistants of general education classes. Other
librarians and library staff have assisted with some of these efforts.
The Libraries are giving presentations at teaching events and coordinating OER Interest Group
activities. We sponsored OER Week activities in 2016.
To date primarily in association with open access conversations, etc. Specific ACC/OER initiative
begins with library staff OTN training this summer.
Two library staff members attended an SECU-sponsored event on open access and open educational
resources they assisted in writing an internal grant and now participate in the OER working group
with the faculty PI.
University Libraries recently hosted three events related to Open Education Week. These events were
designed to engage faculty in discussions related to OERs. One session focused on Creative Commons
licensing, another provided participants with a keynote and introductory workshop on the why, whats,
and hows of OERs, and the final session was a panel that highlighted library, student, and faculty
projects aiming to address textbook affordability. We also recently partnered with our local Students’
Union to make a significant number of course textbooks available on reserve in the library. We are
currently in the process of reviewing data and soliciting feedback from students on the impact of
this project.
We have completed multiple outreach efforts through news articles, surveys, and other promotion.
Workshops have grown in content and attendance through promotion and word of mouth.
Webinar series, immersion training for the Emory Open Education Initiative program, faculty forum
Webinars, library guides, in-person discussion
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