Three CState faculty members received OhioLINK Grants to implement Open Educational Resources in their courses
Three Cincinnati State faculty members have been awarded OhioLINK Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Grants.
The grant recipients are:
- Peggy Rolfsen, Biology
- Karen Groh, Biology
- Carla Rhoades, Early Childhood Education
The CState faculty members are part of a cohort of 30 Ohio higher education faculty from 22 institutions who will learn from state experts in Open Educational Resources.
The grant compensates faculty for participating in a four-week online training course about OER, and provides consultation with an OER-specialist librarian. Then, participants identify open resource alternatives to commercial textbooks that could be adopted for one or more of the courses they teach, and write a short report outlining how they will take action to implement the use of the openly licensed content.
According to the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and other access barriers, and carry legal permission for open use. Generally, this permission is granted by use of an open license, allowing anyone to freely use, adapt, and share the resource.
You can learn more in the Cincinnati State Library Guide to OER.
Since March 2022, 146 OhioLink OER grants have been awarded to instructors from across the state. The use of open resources by these instructors could save students more than $1 million each year.
Previous Cincinnati State recipients of OhioLink OER grants are:
- Milene Donlin, Biology
- Pam Ecker, Design History
- Kelly Hubbard, Early Childhood Education
- Stani Kantcheva, Accounting
- Daniel Zimmer, English as a Second Language