Student Success

What We Learned: Faculty Motivation, Perceptions, Usage and Institutional Support of OER Correlated with Student Success Data

Presented by: Jaquelyn Ray and Jennifer Lantrip

Create a culture of OER in all areas of the campus.  Ask yourself is it in our marketing materials, are we talking it up to students and faculty any chance that we can?

Pathway to equity and to the community.  OER promotes inclusive, active and connected classrooms, while reducing the consumer/commodity nature of traditional teaching.  Open pedagogy is participant based learning.

Faculty who received assistance (library, Instructional Designers, Faculty Trainers, Teaching and Learning departments, etc.) were the most likely to change their teaching.

Key Takeaway: 

• Students recognized that they wanted to be more information literate because their instructor was modeling this behaviour (i.e.: shared their sources, crediting the materials correctly).  
• Students felt that their instructor cared about them, because they were concerned about the cost of textbooks, etc.