Join UNL Libraries 2018 Visiting Scholar, Kristi Jensen, Program Development Lead for the eLearning Support Initiative at the University of Minnesota Libraries, on April 5, 2018 for a day of presentations and conversations about affordable content initiatives, including open educational resources.
2018 Visiting Scholars Presentation: Libraries & Affordable Content: Partnerships, Incentives, and Impacts – 218 Love Library South. Free and open to public.
Doors open at 9:00 am for coffee and refreshments. Presentation: 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
In this session, learn more about a range of affordable content programs, including faculty incentive programs focused on replacing expensive commercial textbooks, the impacts of these efforts for faculty and students, and how librarians and staff can collaborate and contribute to affordable content in a variety of role: https://events.unl.edu/lib/2018/04/05/128118/
Campus Conversations Presentation: Setting Yourself Up for Success with Open Educational Resources
Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC), Conference Center, B Rooms (Registration required due to Lunch)
Starts at 11:30 p.m.
https://teaching.unl.edu/campus-conversation-april-5-2018
For anyone not able to make it to NIC, a free webcast of the presentation will be held at 12:00 p.m. in Love Library’s Peterson Room (LS221).
In this session you can learn more about OER - what it is and why you might want to consider using it, how to find OER that meets your teaching and learning needs, how you can create and share OER, and what other faculty are doing with OER in their classrooms today.
Panel Discussion: NU Faculty Experiences: Integrating Affordable & OER Content Into the Classroom
2:00 – 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Innovation Campus, Conference Center, B Rooms. Free and open to the public.
An open panel with NU faculty features our progress of applying affordable and open-source educational resources (OER) in classrooms at Nebraska. https://events.unl.edu/lib/2018/04/05/128119/
The soaring cost of higher education, development of new open educational resources publishing models, and the changing market for traditional textbook publishers have prompted numerous institutions to undertake affordable content efforts in order to reduce the cost of and insure equitable first day access to course materials for students. Libraries, with both content expertise and historical support for alternative course materials (through print and electronic reserve, copyright, and other services), have stepped up to lead affordable content initiatives at many institutions. These affordable content initiatives are typically highly collaborative and involve a wide variety of central service providers, administrators, faculty and students.
Kristi Jensen, who co-manages the Libraries' Partnership for Affordable Content grant program, is working with campus partners (the Center for Educational Innovation, Academic Technology Support Services, and the Disability Resource Center) to develop a streamlined and highly coordinated Teaching
and Learning support model on campus, and works with partner institutions through the Unizin Teaching and Learning group to further Affordable Course Content efforts. She is currently co-editing a book about affordable content efforts across the U.S., The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples, to be published in the summer of 2018.
Sponsors:
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor
University Libraries
Information Technology Services
NU Online
Innovative Instructional Design
Follett Bookstore