Title of Presentation
Ditching Textbooks: The OER Faculty Fellowship at Lane Community College
Presentation Type
Presentation
Conference Track
Other
Description
Textbooks: expensive, static, out-of-date, longtime vexation to students (and libraries). Led by a geeky librarian, and backed by student government, some instructors at Lane Community College are doing something about it. This presentation will describe the OER Faculty Fellowship, which incentivizes instructors to drop textbook requirements and incorporate free, online, Open Educational Resources instead. The fellowship’s flexible, asynchronous, and self-paced model could also be applied to other faculty development initiatives-information literacy, perhaps?
Start Date
8-2-2013 2:10 PM
End Date
8-2-2013 2:55 PM
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20043
Subjects
Electronic textbooks -- Case studies, Open learning, Electronic information resources, Lane Community College
Ditching Textbooks: The OER Faculty Fellowship at Lane Community College
Textbooks: expensive, static, out-of-date, longtime vexation to students (and libraries). Led by a geeky librarian, and backed by student government, some instructors at Lane Community College are doing something about it. This presentation will describe the OER Faculty Fellowship, which incentivizes instructors to drop textbook requirements and incorporate free, online, Open Educational Resources instead. The fellowship’s flexible, asynchronous, and self-paced model could also be applied to other faculty development initiatives-information literacy, perhaps?
