Textbook affordability continues to be a serious concern for our students. What is the result of the unchecked commercial textbook publishing market? Many students will never purchase the required textbook- directly informing student success, retention and equity in the classroom.
Open Education Resources (OER) for higher education have made significant progress over the last few decades and peer-reviewed textbooks and instructional material are now routinely and successfully used by instructors at fellow research universities across the country - including your own!
Workshop attendees will be introduced to the WRLC $2,000 Faculty Course Transformation Stipend program, which is intended to support faculty who wish to replace (adopt) a commercial textbook with OER. Those who "adopt" a resource will be using existing resource(s) as-is or with minimal editorial changes. Grantees will be expected to adopt the selected material in the 2024-2025 academic year.
In addition, the presentation will feature one or more faculty who received Faculty Course Transformation Stipends who will talk about their experience adopting OER for their course, followed by a Q&A with all presenters.