Walz, Anita R.Blicher, HeatherGrey, Kindred2023-10-042023-10-042023-10-17http://hdl.handle.net/10919/116412Since 2013 the Open Education Initiative (OEI) at Virginia Tech https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer has supported faculty in exploring, adopting, adapting, creating, and freely-distributing open educational resources of various formats. In an effort to identify how to document, strengthen, streamline, and advocate for program permanence, the OEI conducted a formal, anonymous survey. The survey population included faculty and staff open education collaborators who have or are partnering with the OEI since an initial series of grants in 2016. While we keep in close contact with collaborators throughout the entire development process, we believe that anonymous feedback will help us to gain additional insights after projects are completed. We seek to uncover additional aspects of faculty/staff motivations to participate in the OEI, areas for program improvement, and observations about the program from a faculty/staff viewpoint rather than our own perceptions. Our program, institutional context, core values, and earlier, informal findings informed the openly-licensed survey instrument. We will discuss expected findings vs. actual findings from the survey, and our plans for responding, including possible asynchronous online learning modules designed to streamline labor-intensive steps. We hope that these will expand the reach and impact of the OEI while keeping workloads within reason for members of the OEI.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalcollaborator perceptionsurveyopen educationpublishingprogram managementprogram evaluationPresentation