Item Detail
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Oregon State University
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Located in Corvallis, OR
Suburban
Public
Faculty have unionized and in the process clarified that course content ownership (copyright) belongs to the creator (faculty)26247 -
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Governing/managing body: eCampus
Funding: eCampus
Program partners
• Subject librarians
• Center for Teaching and Learning
• Human Services Resource Center
Campus textbook affordability plan (required by legislature) -
Grants
Publishing
• Pressbooks
• OER Commons campus hub
Course marking (required by legislature)
Faculty recognition
Leveraging library resources
• eBook purchase or subscriptions
Workshops
Open Ed Week events
College liaisons group get together regularly
Textbook lending program (at HSRC) -
The program is run through eCampus and is a comprehensive process from beginning to end. The grant applications come in and are awarded throughout the year. Faculty “could be adapting, adopting or authoring, those textbooks or whatever OERs that they want. Mostly it's been textbooks so far.” Support is given for finding content to “move to a no- or low-cost solution,” and also for publishing “working with faculty to actually get from the manuscript to final publication.” All content must go “through peer review process, everything goes through copy editing, everything goes through quality assurance checks.” The faculty authors coordinate the review process and can ask eCampus for assistance if desired. In fact, nothing is put into Pressbooks until “it has been beta tested in a course and changes made.”
Some workshops are given to faculty who are interested in OER, but mostly the workshops are given to, and in fact required for, faculty who have received a grant. It is a series that must be completed to receive funding. The first workshop in the series introduces the process, after which the MOU is signed. “Then they have two more workshops with me on specific things like keeping track of your images and Creative Commons licensing.” At the beginning the content was given in a single workshop, but “just it's too much it's overwhelming.”
Along with the legislature-mandated course marking, “we will award a little badge to faculty who want it that says affordability matters.” This helps spread the word to others and increases visibility of the program.
Support from the campus is evident in that “I have in each college, a liaison, who's considered the Affordable Learning liaison.” This is a direct connection to each college and is a great way to disseminate information. The affordability focus is demonstrated by the “textbook lending program” from the HSRC that allows students who can’t afford their textbooks to borrow.