Affordable Learning Exchange
Timeline
Spring 2016 – Autumn 2019
Summary
The Affordable Learning Exchange at The Ohio State University offers grants to support faculty in replacing traditional textbooks with high-quality open educational resources and library materials. Colleagues in the University Libraries, Office of Distance Education and eLearning, and other teaching-oriented units combine their resources to help faculty successfully create or adopt no-cost or low-cost course materials. Our multi-year, mixed-methods study explored this observation in a more critical and rigorous way through interviews with two faculty cohorts who adopted Affordable Learning Exchange-funded open educational resources. Interviews included questions about if and how the adoption of open educational resources encouraged changes in courses’ breadth or depth of coverage, proportion of time spent on different activities (e.g., lecture versus group work versus discussion), and number or types of assessments.
Project Leads
Publications
- Using affordable course materials: Instructors’ motivations, approaches, and outcomes
- “Open”-ing up courses for diversity and deeper Learning
- Understanding students’ satisfaction with OER as course materials
Presentations
- Rivera, M.D., & Folk, A., & Jaggars, S.S., & Prieto, K., & (2019, November). Moving towards a more inclusive curricula using Open Education Resources and practices. Session presented at the 16th Annual Open Education Conference, Phoenix, AZ.
- Rivera, M., & Prieto, K., & Jaggars, S.S., & Folk, A.F., & (2019, November). “Open”-ing up diversity courses for deeper learning. Paper presented at the 2019 Association for the Study of Higher Education conference, Portland, OR.
- Jaggars, S.S., & Folk, A., & Rivera, M., & Prieto, K., & Jeanty, P.W., & (2019, July). Not all OER are created equal: How different approaches to OER adoption influence deeper learning. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on Performance Management in Libraries, Aberystwyth, Wales
- Rivera, M.D., & Folk, A.L., & Jaggars, S.S., & Prieto, K., & Lally, M., & (2019, March). Recasting the affordable learning conversation: Considering both cost-savings and Deeper Learning opportunities. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), Cleveland, OH
- Jaggars, S.S., & Folk, A.L., & Rivera, M.D., & Prieto, K., & (2018, October). OER as a Deeper Learning initiative? Instructors’ perceptions of OER adoption on classroom teaching and learning. Session presented at the 15th Annual Open Education Conference, Niagara Falls, NY
- Jaggars, S.S., & (2017, October). Textbook affordability: OSU ALX. Invited presentation to a closed meeting of the American Enterprise Institute’s Higher Education Working Group, October 20, 2017, Washington, D.C
- Jaggars, S.S., & Folk, A.L., & Rivera, M.D., & (2017, October). How does OER adoption impact classroom teaching & learning?. Session presented at the 14th Annual Open Education Conference, Anaheim, CA