Reviewing a 5-Year Grant-Funded Campus OER Initiative: Reflections, Successes, & Challenges

Christina Boyle

doi:10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.562

Reviewing a 5-Year Grant-Funded Campus OER Initiative: Reflections, Successes, & Challenges

Open Praxis

Volume 15 (2023): Issue 3

By: Christina Boyle

Open Access

|Sep 2023

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OER) have continued to gain traction in higher education, assisting with ever-rising costs of publisher textbooks and supporting pedagogical innovation. Starting in 2017, NY state legislature has allocated funds annually to be split between its two public university systems to support and incentivize the adoption of OER. The author’s institution, an included public college, has secured portions of this funding each year. This paper will focus on the initial five years of the state-funded OER initiative at the City University of New York (CUNY) College of Staten Island, with reflections on the successes of the program, the overall process of the annual grant cycle on campus, challenges that arose in the burgeoning OER program, and suggestions for future considerations. The main aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of state funding on the establishment of a library-facilitated OER initiative, to serve as a example for other institutions who are seeking to build an OER program.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.15.3.562 | Journal eISSN: 2304-070X

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Language: English

Page range: 226 - 234

Submitted on: Jun 3, 2023

Accepted on: Jul 22, 2023

Published on: Sep 5, 2023

Published by: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Open Educational Resources,

OER,

Grant Funding,

Higher Education,

OER Initiative

© 2023 Christina Boyle, published by International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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