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Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
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Located in Corpus Christi, TX
Suburban
Public
Minority Serving Institution
Hispanic Serving Institution -
9776
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2153
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Governing/managing body: Library
Program partners
• Digital Learning and Academic Innovation (in the library)
Funding
• Stipend for communities of practice from campus -
Campus working group - transitioned to an official campus committee in 2019
• Student Government Association
• University Services
• Campus Registrar
• Faculty representatives from all colleges, plus one • representative from the Faculty Senate.
• Disability Services
• Academic Support and Mentoring
• Digital Learning and Academic Innovation
Communities of practice with stipend
Faculty workshops
Open Access Week marketing
Open Education Week events
System-wide OER committee
Leverage library resources
Campus events -
The OER program “started out with a task force. We decided we wanted to try to build buy-in across campus; buy-in to the OER idea and also through the task force start getting the word out a little bit more about OER.” This task force implemented “faculty development program, which was a series of communities of practice.” The benefit of these communities of practice is that there is time to discuss issues faculty have more in depth.
Reaching out to faculty is key and to accomplish that, in addition to the communities of practice, “I've done a lunch and learn kind of deal. Then we had a panel of faculty that spoke. And it turned out, they didn't really know what OER were either. Even though they were like, ‘I can talk about OER’. So that was a really interesting conversation.”
Campus events followed including inviting David Wiley to provide a keynote and a whiteboard activity. Other forms of engagement included “displays, postcards, tabling, and presentations.”
Leveraging library resources is also a key to the affordability side of the program. Course reserves is a big program that helps students save money and still give access to necessary course materials.
Despite finding support at the administration level is difficult “our Provost has gotten involved with OER, and is a member of DOERS3,” and “one of our associate VPs for IT is very into OER.” Unfortunately this associate VT has since left the University.
The grants that have been given for a couple of years by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board have been very instrumental in getting more faculty engaged with adopting and creating OER. I hope those grants continue.