5 Year Evaluation of a State-Funded OER Initiative at a 4-year Public College
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In this presentation, the College of Staten Island (CSI) OER Coordinator/Emerging Technologies Librarian will evaluate the impact of state-funded grant monies for CSI students over the past 5 years of the CUNY OER program. Attention will be paid to student savings, faculty involvement, OER creation, and librarian-led education in OER during the first 5 years of the grant, as well as plans for sustaining the momentum of the project in the future. In addition to saving CSI students over $1.5 million in textbook costs over the past 5 years of this initiative, the OER Coordinator has also created an asynchronous online introductory course to OER for CSI faculty, which has required participants to create original OER and share them to CUNY’s open institutional repository, CUNY Academic Works. The grant has supported the creation of new OER materials, such as online learning suites for Physics and Astronomy, which were incredibly crucial during the abrupt shift to remote learning during the height of the pandemic. Over 50 individual courses have been converted to Zero-Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses, using a combination of OER and materials that are available at no additional cost to students (such as CSI library materials), including some required general education courses. Although course conversions have slowed over the last two years, methods for sustaining impact using grant funding will be explored. The use of Mentimeter, a free polling software, will be used to assess similar program impact and sustainability concerns for session attendees.
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2023-04-04
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