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Support for ALM / OER at Boise State

eCampus Center

OER Support for Faculty Teaching Online

eCampus Center supports faculty who teach online at Boise State University with their needs regarding OER, open pedagogy, and other open instructional practices

This support includes:

OER Consultations: Consult on using OER in your course, including best practices, how to select, or anything else related to OER.
OER Inventories: eCampus Center staff will use your learning and module objectives to select relevant OER for your course.
Open Education Development Series: This program is offered once annually, spring to summer terms. https://www.boisestate.edu/ecampus-center/research-and-innovation/open-book-grant-program/

Send an email to : email ecampusrit @ boisestate.edu to use these services

The Center for Teaching and Learning

OER Support for Faculty on Campus

The CTL supports campus-based faculty in meeting their interest in locating Affordable Learning Materials (ALM) or assisting with the development of Open Educational Resources.

ALM and OER support starts with an initial CTL Consultation. A consultation may include the following:

The initial meeting serves to understand the instructor’s request and offer suggestions for next steps, such as finding, selecting, remixing, or creating OER.
A meeting could include an introduction to OER licensing, including tools for generating Creative Commons licenses.
Meetings could include demonstrations of effective strategies for searching OER.
Sharing of OER databases and rubrics to locate and evaluate OER resources.
Reviewing and providing feedback on the Instructor’s OER materials.

Contact the Center for Teaching and Learning at ctl@boisestate.edu to start your OER journey.

Albertsons Library

Using Library licensed resources in your course is a really awesome way to improve affordability for your students. Library Liaisons can help you find resources for your courses, including articles, books and ebooks, streaming media, and OER. Find your library liaison here and start working with them today.

The Library Textbook Project

Albertsons Library is partnering with the Bronco Shop

Albertsons Library works to lower textbook and course materials costs for Boise State students in many ways. First, we encourage faculty and instructors to talk to their librarian to see if the Library can purchase an eBook of their required course materials. Faculty can find their liaison here, or directly submit a purchase request and we will investigate options. We work with faculty to see if an eBook with a usage license that can accommodate the students in the class is be available for purchase. We are able to license eBooks, streaming videos, and other course materials. Second, we are partnering with the Bronco Shop to proactively identify eTextbooks that the library can license so that students would not have to buy the materials, thereby reducing students’ overall textbook costs.

Faculty and instructors interested in learning more about using library materials to replace or support their course materials, please contact acquisitions@boisestate.edu or Mary Aagard maryaagard@boisestate.edu.

What is Inclusive Access?

A definition from the Bronco Shop

https://www.broncoshop.com/inclusive_access.asp

The Inclusive Access (“IA”) program is a digital textbook/course materials model that saves students roughly 50% – 80% compared to traditional printed textbooks. Students enrolled in classes with IA will have their course materials delivered digitally via email and Canvas, at the start of the semester.

Students are automatically opted-in to the program, with the option to opt-out up until the opt-out deadline. The fee for IA is shown in students’ Student Center as a “textbook” transaction and is removed if you choose to opt-out before the deadline. Opting out means that the student must source their course materials another way.

The Problems with Inclusive Access

“The cost of college textbooks has increased sharply over the last several decades, which has harmed student access and success. Everyone agrees that this is a problem. As higher education leaders consider new textbook sales models that advertise lower costs, the campus community deserves to fully understand how these models impact students and faculty. InclusiveAccess.org is a community-driven initiative to raise awareness about the facts about automatic textbook billing.” (Inclusiveaccess.org)

For a more critical account of Inclusive Access see Inclusiveaccess.org, and explore some of the potential downsides to the Inclusive Access Model.