2019 Annual Conference

CPAE CoConference: Emerging Issues for Faculty in Higher Education

Roundtable (45 minutes)

The high-cost textbook led to students’ struggling and low academic performance.  Hence, more open education resource (OER) platforms are developed along with the initiative grant programs to encourage the OER usage. The article reviewed, compared and contrasted different OER incentive programs to gain some insight for the University of Houston.  

Program Coordinators of Higher Education who're interested in the use of OER and different successful OER initiative program

Practitioners who' re interested in the use of OER

Fundamental literature about OER (history, benefits, difficulties and concern, COUP framework, sustainable model of OER)
Have an overview of different 7 OER Incentive programs in Public Universities in America in terms of the funds, the resources, the requirement and criteria of awardee selection, the list of awardee recipients' projects, the related researches and any special features of the programs to capture the elements for a successful and the sustainable OER initiative grant program.

7 OER Incentive program reviewed included:

• Kansas State University - http://www.lib.k-state.edu/open-textbook
• The University of Kansas - https://openaccess.ku.edu/grant
• The Ohio State University - http://silverstripe.lib.ohio-state.edu/projects-initiatives/affordability/textbook-affordability-grant-2
• RUTGERS - The State University of New Jersey - https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/open-textbooks
• University of Oklahoma - http://guides.ou.edu/AlternativeTextbooks
• North Carolina State University - https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/alttextbook

Firstly, the current issue of the high cost of textbook affected students' learning and the setting of the University of Houston as an urban public university would be presented. Then literature of OER would be reviewed in term of history, benefit and challenges, the COUP framework for the evaluation of OER and the sustainable models of OER.  Then the similarities and differences of 7 OER incentive program would be presented in terms of funds, resources, requirement and criteria of awardee selection, list of awardee recipients' projects, related researches and any special features of the programs.