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Creating Digital Learning Objects for Use in Large Lecture Classes
(2016-07-21)
Large lecture classes sometimes fail to provide an informal approach for students to “practice” what they’ve learned, or delve deeper into materials that are not in the textbook. There is currently no textbook that addresses ...
A Framework for Analyzing any U.S. Copyright Problem
(2015-08)
This framework lists five-steps which in order may assist anyone in navigating where to begin regarding a "can I use it?" U.S. Copyright problem. It is adapted (links added) from a guide with the same name © 2014 Kevin ...
Open and Editable: Exploring Library Engagement in Open Educational Resource Adoption, Adaptation and Authoring
(Virginia Library Association, 2015)
Open Educational Resources (OER) have saved students millions of dollars in textbook costs and greatly expanded access to a wide variety of educational materials for countless numbers of students and life-long learners. ...
Moving the Needle: Libraries Embracing a Culture of Open
(2015-12-04)
The presentation "Moving the Needle: Libraries Embracing a Culture of Open" was invited by the SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education for Virginia) Library Advisory Committee. (Membership: http://surveys.schev.edu/Admi ...
Textbook and Homework Access Code Costs in Higher Education: Student, Academic Dean and Department Head Perspectives on Costs and Implications for Learning
(2017-02-17)
Research presentation at the 2017 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech. Increased costs of college textbooks by 864% between 1978 and 2013 has spurred numerous studies and expanded student, faculty, ...
Making It Easier: Reducing Perceived and Real Barriers to Finding and Sharing Open Educational Resources
(2015-10)
Perceptions of time and effort required to locate open educational resources (OER) remains the most significant barrier to wider faculty adoption of OER. This poster reflects my current thinking regarding what librarians ...
Behind the Scenes of the Fair Use Week Exhibit - How We Made Our Copyright Decisions
(2016-02)
This workshop was created for a general audience, with an expectation of most being students, staff, or faculty in a higher education environment. *This workshop was developed with United States copyright law in mind. ...
OER Update
(2018-06-29)
This OER Update, provided at the request of the Virginia Scholarly Communication Interest Group, provides an overview of the values underpinning open education, the complexity of higher education and commercial actor ...
An Open Textbook Approach to OER: VIVA & the Open Textbook Network
(2016-10-28)
In the Spring of 2016, VIVA joined the Open Textbook Network (OTN) -- a growing collaboration of schools, universities, and institutions that promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open ...
To Boldly Go: First-year exploration of OER Initiatives
(2014-10-23)
Presented at the Virginia Libraries Association Annual Conference. Open Educational Resources present opportunities for teaching faculty to save students thousands of dollars in textbook costs. This session describes the ...