[OERCommittee] [EXTERNAL] Illinois Institutional OER Initiatives

[Banks, Dorinne]

Hello DeeAnna!
I'm excited about the work that you all are doing for the OER Summit!
Here's a snapshot of my institution, Adler University:

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Awareness building efforts through faculty OER workshops, OER LibGuide, and promotion of OER in each online course design/re-design.
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OER Adoptions have been minimal so far; use of library ebooks as course materials has been a popular alternative.

I hope this helps!
Best,
Dorinne

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Hi, OER folks.



At our last meeting, I think Dan and I mentioned that we (along with Michele Leigh, Chris Sweet, and Jeff Newell) have been putting together some materials for the MHEC Midwest OER Summit in January. I’ve been exploring institutional OER initiatives across the state and literally looked at every public and private college and university in Illinois (except the for-profits) to see what amazing course materials work has been done in the last few years. I believe I have a pretty thorough picture, but it is possible that some efforts are not very Google-able or aren’t easy to access if you aren’t affiliated with the school. So, here is where I could use some help. What I have discovered is that campuses are generally focusing their “open” efforts in these five areas:

  *   Hiring of OER/Scholarly Communications librarians or facilitators (difficult to determine because there is no standard title—and not every person’s official job title is listed in public-facing venues)
  *   Faculty cohorts, workshops, and communities of practice to promote OER and Open Pedagogy
  *   Stipend programs to support the adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER
  *   Marking of low- and no-cost courses in student registration systems and catalogs (this one is hard to get info about for anyone outside the institution)
  *   Recognition for faculty or departments offering/promoting low- and no-cost course materials

Does your institution have programs or initiatives that fall into any of these areas? If so, which ones? If you or your campus is doing something not listed, please let me know. The info that I am putting together is going to be on a single slide, so I’m going for very broad strokes. But I think it would be really helpful to know, however informally, what’s happening across the state and what has changed since the 2020 IHBE survey.



If you have any information to share, please email me (dphares at niu.edu<mailto:dphares at niu.edu>) by 9:00AM on Friday, December 1st.



Thanks in advance.



Dee Anna



Dee Anna Phares

(she/her/hers)



Assistant Professor & Subject Specialist Librarian

History │ Psychology │ Leadership, Educational Psychology, and Foundations │ Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies │ Children’s & YA Collection

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