Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation
This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs a...
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| author | Jonathan Lashley Rebel Cummings-Sauls Andrew B. Bennett Brian L. Lindshield |
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| description | This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs and expectations of K-State students and faculty, this initiative proposes a sustainable means of incentivizing faculty participation via institutional support, encouraging the creation and maintenance of OAER through recurring funding, promoting innovative realizations of “educational resources” beyond traditional textbooks, and rallying faculty participation in adopting increasingly open textbook alternatives. The history and resulting structure of the initiative raise certain recommendations for how public universities may sustainably offset student textbook costs while also empowering the pedagogies of educators via a more methodical approach to adopting open materials. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7eecb4d5a3d409c93df6816a63593b52022-12-21T20:05:49ZengAthabasca University PressInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning1492-38312017-06-0118410.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3010Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource ProliferationJonathan Lashley0Rebel Cummings-Sauls1Andrew B. Bennett2Brian L. Lindshield3Clemson UniversityKansas State UniversityKansas State UniversityKansas State UniversityThis note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs and expectations of K-State students and faculty, this initiative proposes a sustainable means of incentivizing faculty participation via institutional support, encouraging the creation and maintenance of OAER through recurring funding, promoting innovative realizations of “educational resources” beyond traditional textbooks, and rallying faculty participation in adopting increasingly open textbook alternatives. The history and resulting structure of the initiative raise certain recommendations for how public universities may sustainably offset student textbook costs while also empowering the pedagogies of educators via a more methodical approach to adopting open materials.http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3010higher educationsustainable initiativesopen educational resourcesOEROpen/Alternative ResourcesOAER |
| spellingShingle | Jonathan Lashley Rebel Cummings-Sauls Andrew B. Bennett Brian L. Lindshield Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning higher education sustainable initiatives open educational resources OER Open/Alternative Resources OAER |
| title | Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation |
| title_full | Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation |
| title_fullStr | Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation |
| title_short | Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation |
| title_sort | cultivating textbook alternatives from the ground up one public university s sustainable model for open and alternative educational resource proliferation |
| topic | higher education sustainable initiatives open educational resources OER Open/Alternative Resources OAER |
| url | http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3010 |
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