Item Detail
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Virginia State University
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Located in Ettrick, VA
Suburban
Public -
4000
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0
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Governing/managing body: Library
Program partners
• VSU Online
Funding: VIVA -
Workshops/training
Viva grants
Leveraging library resources (VIVA) -
Workshops connected to the VIVA programs have helped the faculty understand the greater scope of what is available. One was a “workshop on [using] the faculty textbook portal” to find or request content for courses “and VIVA will look at it and purchase it on our behalf.” Other workshops are given at the university opening conference.
The grants rely on the VIVA program where faculty can apply for money to transition a course to OER. Support is available at the library if needed. Marketing this and other programs to the campus community is done through a new marketing committee.
A key to this university is “our demographics. Around 90% of our students get financial aid of some kind, so they are Pell eligible.”
The pandemic was a great thing for OER on this campus “because of the shift to remote, and that shift in the bookstore to eBooks I think has really opened people's eyes to I think they're trying to prepare for a remote environment.”