On Friday, January 17th,
Academic Technology Services hosted a Faculty Forum on Open
Educational Resources (OER). The
conversation featured some OER stories from UC Davis STEM
librarian Sheena Campbell and Spanish professor Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez.
Open Educational Resources
offer our students a number of benefits, including cost reductions, easy
and timely access to assigned materials, and helpful supplemental
resources. Faculty benefit from OER customization and personalization
for the variety of classes we teach, collaboration opportunities with
disparate faculty on wiki-style textbooks, and improved student learning
outcomes that come with students’ educational resources abundance
mindsets.
Special request from Claudia Sanchez-Gutierrez: “I would like to share with you a survey I developed with two co-fellows of the California Alliance for Open Education about the challenges and opportunities of OERs in higher education. If you all had 15 minutes to respond to the survey, that would be fantastic! So far, most of our respondents are from the CCC and CSU, but UC campuses are really underrepresented. Here is the survey:
https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0MoLe2koE6nsxBs”
