2021-2022 Cohort

Aryeh Drager

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Aryeh Drager

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

METR 100: Weather and Climate

Enrollment: 200

Project

Create a unified, open-access set of exercises for the laboratory component of the course.

Savings

$55/student

Congrui (Grace) Jin

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Congrui (Grace) Jin

Civil and Environmental Engineering

CIVE 491/891: Materials for Energy and Sustainability

Enrollment: 30

Project

Develop 20 OER learning modules to replace the textbooks for the course.

Savings

$96/student

Madeline Wiseman

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Madeline Wiseman

Journalism and Mass Communication

JGEN 120: Basic Business Communication

Enrollment: 320

Project

Eliminate the textbook by adopting, adapting, and authoring OER materials in order to enhance course content and decrease student costs.

Savings

$120/student

Nicholas Husbye

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Nicholas Husbye

Education and Human Sciences

TEAC 311/313: Teaching Reading in the Elementary School/Language Arts in the Elementary School

Enrollment: 90

Project

Replace textbooks with learning objects for both online and in-person contexts. Digital learning objects will include a series of videos, guided notes for the videos, and content knowledge assessments.

Savings

$105/student

Brian Moore

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Brian Moore

Music

MUSC 198: Special Topics of Music, “Digital Music Production via Music Notation: An Introduction”

Enrollment: 30

Project

Replace the textbook and resources with materials that are digital in nature and/or open source software.

Savings

$75/student

Madeline Wiseman

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Madeline Wiseman

Journalism and Mass Communication

JGEN 300: Technical Communication II

Enrollment: 192

Project

Eliminate the textbook by adopting, adapting, and authoring OER materials in order to enhance course content and decrease student costs.

Savings

$110/student

Anna Hiatt

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Anna Hiatt

Biological Sciences

LIFE 120 & 120L: Fundamentals of Biology

Enrollment: 600

Project

Replace e-text through creation of an open access textbook and online homework and study resource

Savings

$42.50/student

Emmeline Watson

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Emmeline Watson

Construction Management

CNST 252: Construction Materials and Testing

Enrollment: 64

Project

Create an open textbook to replace lecture slides with a textbook and laboratory workbook to support student learning without requiring cost-prohibitive materials.

Savings

$344.98/student

Jiangang Xia

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Jiangang Xia

Educational Administration

EDAD 982: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods

Enrollment: 10

Project

Develop OER materials to replace the two textbooks for the course and design a course to share across multiple social science disciplines.

Savings

$128.09 - $380.58/student

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