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Final Report: Oer Textbook For Core A2 Courses, Cathy Gabor, Leigh Meredith
Final Report: Oer Textbook For Core A2 Courses, Cathy Gabor, Leigh Meredith
USF OER Faculty Grant
This report provides an overview of the project completed with OER grant funds received from USF’s Gleeson Library in 2021. Our OER project was to create a textbook that would reduce costs for students in USF’s current Core A2 classes, including RHET 120, 250, 295 and HONC 132. It was also intended to provide a “multimodal” (writing, speaking, digital) approach to composition to reflect best practices and pedagogical innovations in the teaching of composition and communication. This report will cover the specific plan for the OER, what was accomplished, what assessment efforts were undertaken, and areas for further development. Findings …
2020 Usf Open Educational Resources Grant Report, Allison R. Thorson
2020 Usf Open Educational Resources Grant Report, Allison R. Thorson
USF OER Faculty Grant
Please find attached my final report from my $1000 2020 USF Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant. Although COVID-19 delayed the submission of this report, the global pandemic has also made open access materials even more essential to supporting student’s access at USF. I am appreciative of the funding to facilitate this project.
Throughout this process, I was able to ensure that the materials/readings I was offering to students for free did not violate copyright laws and open my eyes to resources that I did not know were available. Based on the findings of my analysis, my course readings have been …
Open Education Initiative: University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn Billings, Charlotte Roh
Open Education Initiative: University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn Billings, Charlotte Roh
Charlotte Roh
Poster for the Open Education Conference 2014 in Washington, DC. The Open Education Initiative (OEI) began in 2011 as a response to the high cost of textbooks and the burden of student debt as barriers to education and learning. The OEI faculty incentive program provides small grants to faculty for: - the creation of new teaching materials, - the use of library subscription materials, - or the use of existing open (free) information resources to support our students’ learning. It is widely considered a successful program that builds on existing infrastructure and is scalable across big and small institutions. As …