{"id":813,"date":"2018-09-24T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.www.wcsu.edu\/celt\/?p=813"},"modified":"2018-09-24T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:56:21","slug":"are-you-ready-to-goopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/celt\/2018\/09\/24\/are-you-ready-to-goopen\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ready to #GoOpen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Textbook affordability has emerged as a potential barrier to academic success nationally.\u00a0Data shows that as textbook prices rise<\/a>, average student expenditures for these textbooks does not, indicating that more and more students are simply choosing not to purchase the required texts.\u00a0 Putting the textbook on reserve on the library will help somewhat, but the limitations to access are significant (open hours, competition for materials, costs). To address this issue, the WCSU library has been encouraging faculty #GoOpen and explore\u00a0Open Educational Resources\u00a0<\/a>(OER), which are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and\u00a0under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.<\/p>\n

In practical terms, OER range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. Variations of OER concepts can also include mixing open resources with library-licensed content. The\u00a0Alternate Textbook Project<\/a>\u00a0at Temple University encourages faculty to \u201cmix resources from existing textbooks, licensed library collections, primary research content, open textbooks, multimedia or faculty\u2019s self-authored material. What the final product looks like and how it is used is entirely up to the individual faculty member, but librarians are available to help with identifying and organizing resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks to generous funding from the Davis Foundation and the WCSU SGA, the Library is expanding our Open Educational Resource (OER)\u00a0grant program<\/a>\u00a0we started last year (see flyer below). So if you think you are ready to #GoOpen, or you just want to learn more about it, reach out to your friendly librarians! We are here to help.<\/p>\n

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