Lightning Talks: Small Grants, Big Impact: A Cross-Campus Collaboration to Foster OER Awareness Through Faculty Reviews
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Abstract
This lightning talk presents a collaboration between Suffolk University's Sawyer Library, Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence, and Office of the Provost to promote OER adoption through a micro-grant initiative. By offering $200 stipends to faculty members for reviewing open textbooks, this program creates a low-barrier entry point for OER engagement while building awareness across three schools and disciplines. The initiative leverages the institutional repository, Digital Collections @ Suffolk, to showcase faculty reviews alongside OER materials and resources, creating a sustainable framework for knowledge sharing and discovery. This presentation shares how the collaborative approach between academic support units helped establish buy-in from diverse stakeholders and created touchpoints for faculty engagement with OER across disciplines. We'll share insights on how small-scale initiatives can serve as catalysts for broader conversations about textbook affordability and open education on campus, demonstrating that modest investments can yield meaningful steps toward OER adoption.
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2025-03-04
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Attribution 4.0 International
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/