Open Educational Resources (OER): Additional Resources
Springer Affordable Textbooks
- Springer Affordable TextbooksThousands of Springer e-books are designated as textbooks and available in our collections. Faculty can utilize these existing resources to reduce textbook costs for students. Springer e-books have no DRM, unlimited reading, downloading, and sharing options, and can be printed on demand by students at the Springer site for $24.95 through their MyCopy initiative.
Data – MU Spring 2015 Textbooks
Members of the University OER Committee reviewed a spreadsheet for textbooks ordered for Spring 2015 which included: ISBNs, titles, department, course, section, instructor, cost (both new and used), and enrollment (estimated and actual). [SEE SHEET 1]
They then computed two separate Enrollment X value metrics, using the actual enrollment of the course rather than the projected enrollment:
- one if everyone buys new
- one if everyone buys used
They then did a pivot table on the more conservative (i.e. used cost) to see the to-student-cost across textbooks. [SEE SHEET 3]
OER White Paper
On 9/8/2015, the members of the Faculty Learning Community Exploring Open Educational Resources delivered a white paper entitled Open Educational Resources and Their Implementation at Miami University. The paper covers: the definition of OER, best practices, benefits and evidence, OER as a strategy to meet 2020 goals, implementing an OER culture at Miami University, a preliminary plan.
You can download a copy of this white paper at https://sc.lib.miamioh.edu/handle/2374.MIA/5285.
PowerPoint Slide Decks
These slide decks, some with speaker's notes, can be used for your own presentations. Feel free to modify to suit your needs.
- OER: Introduction & Initiatives at Miami University (18.9 MB .pptx file)
- Presentation given as part of "Plug-In/Reboot" on 1/19/2016
- Open Educational Resources (OER): Considerations for implementation at Miami University (4.5 MB .pptx file)
- Presentation given to Senate Library Advisory Council on 12/3/2015
- Open Educational Resources (OER): Considerations for implementation at Miami University (4.4 MB .pptx file)
- Presentation given to Miami University Senate on 9/21/2015
- Introduction to OER for Liaison Librarians (12.2 MB .pptx file)
- Presentation to liaison librarians given on 8/11/2015
Advocacy
- The Open Education Group Review Project: Provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption