Don’t miss an opportunity to reduce textbook costs for HSU students...

You are invited to participate by adopting and evaluating an open textbook, evaluating a recently adopted open textbook, or openly license your educational material and evaluating it in a course.

The CSU Affordable Learning Solutions initiative has funded HSU’s Sustainable Learning Program to support faculty adoption and evaluation of open textbooks, open educational resources (OER), or self-authored materials that faculty are willing to openly license. The HSU Sustainable learning Program will support faculty through its partnership with the Library, College of eLearning & Extended Education, Student Disability Resource Center, Bookstore and others to help faculty decrease the cost of an education for our students with high-quality, peer-reviewed learning materials.

Details:

HSU Sustainable Learning is a program to support HSU Faculty to: assess an Open Textbook you recently adopted, select a high-quality open textbook and assess the impact, or openly license a course resource you developed that replaces a textbook.

Stipend: $1,000 upon completion of evaluation and report by January 15, 2016

Commitment

• Complete a very brief online registration form
• Participate in one 90 minute HSU Sustainable Learning workshop, available times/lunch provided:May 14 12-1:30pm, May 15 1-2:30pm, or May 19 12:30-1:30pm. Additional consultation services are available to help locate high-quality, peer-reviewed, and customizable open textbooks, or please review HSU’s OER guide.
• Survey students (example survey)
• Research: Evaluate outcomes of using open textbook in the course
• Write very brief report, excerpt will be shared with Cool4Ed and Affordable Learning Solutions Campus/Faculty Showcase
• Join a panel presentation at an upcoming campus event; Institute for Student Success or IdeaFest, and present results at an OER Conversation or Department meeting

Deadline: May 6, 2015

If you have any questions, please contact Cyril Oberlander, University Library Dean at Cyril.Oberlander@Humboldt.edu or 3441