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Really cool to hear about the OER adoption, I'd love to hear more about the decision process. From another comment in this thread it sounds like people in your
by dougmccune 10y ago
Really cool to hear about the OER adoption, I'd love to hear more about the decision process. From another comment in this thread it sounds like people in your dept actually wrote/revised significant content of the text. That's both awesome in that you/your peers can update the content that you need, and disappointing, in that it's not going to work on a mass scale if every dept has to dedicate a lot of time to editing the content before they'd be willing to adopt it.
I'd love to hear your perspective on the state of OER resources and their likelihood of adoption. Particularly if you think outside your institution.
- jccalhoun 10y agoI had very little to do with it (last semester I taught during the staff meetings so I was a bit out of the loop). From what the course director said it was really based on the cost. I teach at a SLAC with a lot of first generation students who rely on student loads. One of the profs apparently mentioned it and then they went whole hog on it because we didn't like the current book all that much. Basically, they took a book that existed and added at least 2 chapters and then customized the rest. I don't know to what degree they customized it but I do know that wherever possible they added links and references to campus resources to make the book more relevant.