Item Detail
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Umpqua Community College
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Located in Roseburg, OR
Rural
Public -
19300
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0
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Governing/managing body: Library
Program partners
• Bookstore
Funding: Through Open Oregon -
Campus OER group
Workshops - OEN
Adoption grants
Faculty OER consultations
Course marking (required by legislature)
Faculty inservice meeting presentations
Campus textbook affordability plan (required by legislature) -
To comply with the legislature’s requirement to provide course markings, “we worked with the bookstore to implement the schedule designation.” Unfortunately, “the bookstore person has to manually identify which [courses] are OER.” Because of good communication the bookstore has gotten an impressive “100% on time [course materials] adoptions” from faculty.
A committee was formed to develop the Textbook Affordability Plan, also required by the legislature, though the committee was disbanded after the plan was finished.
Staffing became an issue when many left so the program had to be slowed down. With more staff “we would do things like we helped one faculty with his citations because he was writing an OER.”
OEN workshops were provided to faculty through Open Oregon, who paid the faculty for reviewing a textbook in the Open Textbook Library. These workshops and reviews “were really successful because” even if they don’t adopt they are informed for the future. In fact, “I had one person who reviewed something and he's like ‘no no no’, and then a couple years later he came back and now all his courses are OER.” In addition to this funding the library provided a little for “adoption grants to faculty.” The applications were awarded partially on “overall what the impact would be for students.”
Increasing awareness of OER on campus was accomplished by presenting at inservice or department meetings. In addition to introducing OER, library resources were promoted as another resource for reducing course materials costs.