Roadmap - 5 Years

Mission

The mission of Open Education Services within the Utah Tech University Library is to increase student academic success and remove barriers that impede access to course materials. Using OER can improve educational costs and first-day readiness for students, as well as flexibility in course curriculum and design for faculty. 

The function of the OER program is to aid and support faculty and/or departments in implementing this content in their courses and to encourage sharing of OER materials and Open Educational Practices.

Goals and outcomes for Open Education Services by 2025 are:

Increase faculty participation in OER.

• 30% increase in faculty using OER in some form by 2025
• 30% increase in courses using OER in some form by 2025
• 15 items created and/or adapted by faculty shared in MERLOT and/or institutional repository by 2025.

Faculty and other stakeholders report that they are very aware of OER and how it can be used in the classroom.

• 50% of all responding faculty and other stakeholders report that they are very aware of OER and understand how they can be used in the classroom by 2025.

Reduce student financial burden for course materials.

• Increase of $100,000 per year student textbook savings by 2025.

Increase student course academic success.

• 10 percent increase of A,  A-, B+, B, B-, and/or C+ letter grades for classes who have adopted OER.

Policies

Policy 620 Open Educational Resources

Addendum 641o Guidelines for using OER in the RTP process

Meeting Minutes

Planning and Reporting

Team

Emma Lanners, MLIS
OER & Graduate Support Librarian
emma.lanners@utahtech.edu
435-652-7719

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