Two of the largest barriers to Open Educational Resources adoption by faculty are finding appropriate OER and evaluating each resource’s quality. Through an open-licensed and remixable / revisable combination of grant-supported documents and reports, Affordable Learning Georgia has implemented a "blueprint" solution to this barrier: the ALG Grants Collections.
Two of the largest barriers to faculty OER adoption in introductory courses are the time it takes to find appropriate OER and the evaluation of a resource's quality. Through an open-licensed and remixable/revisable combination of grant-supported open syllabi, proposals, and reports, Affordable Learning Georgia has implemented a "blueprint" solution to this barrier, bringing together the knowledge and experiences of each Textbook Transformation Grants project team: the ALG Grants Collections.
Provided through Affordable Learning Georgia's new digital repository, Grants Collections are Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licensed, with the option to download the full PDF, section-by-section PDFs, and/or a Microsoft Word editable version of the document. Through individual faculty-curated collections of resources, the course structure in which those resources are implemented, and everything these teams of faculty and professional staff had learned throughout the process, faculty without the extra time and funding to start an OER implementation from the ground-up can find a faster route to implementation. An instructor's evaluation of the quality of these resources can be bolstered by some of the most authentic measures of a resource's quality: how they affected students in their peer faculty members' classrooms and online environments.
Through this quick presentation, participants will understand a new idea to make the most out of one OER adoption, paving the way for more affordable learning opportunities for their faculty.