Tag Archives: Textbook Cost: $0

UHCC OER Office Hours Friday October 7 at 11 am

With students returning to more face-to-face instruction since 2020, OER awareness and usage continues to increase with the growing acceptance of digital course materials. These are some of the findings in the Bay View Analytics’ 2022 report, Turning Point for Digital Curricula. The report’s data was collected through surveyed higher education teaching faculty at 1,316 institutions representing all fifty states and the District of Columbia. They have provided a concise but informative infographic highlighting some of the study’s findings.

Jason Yamashita and Junie Hayashi be discussing the Turning Point for Digital Curricula’s infographic at the next OER Office Hours on Friday, 10/7/22 at 11 am.

Zoom link (go.hawaii.edu/LK2)

Hope you will join us.

OER Modification and Creation Awards deadline extended to October 3

Good news! The deadline for applications to modify your course materials or create new course materials has been extended to October 3.

This program supports faculty and lecturers committed to converting a course to TXT0 and are ready to modify existing open materials or create their own works. A project proposal is required, as well as prior completion or current participation in the OER 101 course. The project completion deadline is May 1, 2023 with projects proposed by a single author or teams of no more than four.

Please visit the UHCC OER website for a listing of the 2021-2022 awardees and their inspirational projects.

Other programs available…(AY 2023 full announcement)

$200 award available to eligible UHCC attendees submitting a textbook review. Registration is open through October 7, 2022.

Eligible UHCC participants will be compensated $300 for completing the OER basics course requirements. 

We welcome you to share OER-related questions, experiences, and challenges wherever you may be on your OER journey. The next session is Friday, October 7, 2022. (The Zoom link is provided on the website.)

Open education work in Physiology 141 and 142 gets UH News attention

Kapiʻolani CCʻs instructors and staff are working so hard to bring free textbooks to our students, saving them money and helping them with college success. To date they have saved students $4.7 million in textbook costs.

Thanks to dozens of collaborators across the University of Hawaiʻi System, an online, zero-cost textbook for two popular anatomy and physiology courses—Physiology 141 and 142—will replace the textbook that was used by almost 4,700 students during the last academic year for an estimated total savings of more than $433,000. The various textbooks currently used for these courses range in cost from $160 to $210. The new textbook is anticipated to be ready for fall 2023.

Kapiʻolani Community College Assistant Professor Sheryl Shook and former UH Associate Vice President of Student Affairs Hae Okimoto worked with 37 faculty, 11 of them co-authors, across all 10 UH campuses on the multi-year Online Educational Resource (OER) project.

Congratulations to Sheryl Shook, our Kapiʻolani CC faculty and staff, and the A&P team for making this vision become a reality.

See the full story here.

For more information about open educational resources training and opportunities, visit the UHCC OER Incentives Announcement, the UHCC OER website, and contact Sunny Pai at sunyeen@hawaii.edu or Sheryl Shook at shooks@hawaii.edu.

 

Open Educational Resources and Zero Cost Textbooks: Join the movement!

The UH Community Colleges are supporting instructors in converting their learning materials so that students do not have to pay for their textbooks. This puts money back into our studentsʻ pockets (think $1,350 per year for books and supplies) and helps them succeed in their college dreams! Instructors can start with small projects, such as chapters or slides, then, when ready, work on bigger projects. Research on the impact of Open Educational Resources show that itʻs use is correlated with increased student engagement and success.

The UHCC OER leads from our seven colleges are offering systemwide professional development programs on open educational resources and awards for course/textbook modification and creation projects for academic year 2023. Professional development opportunities include textbook review workshops and an in-depth asynchronous UHCC OER 101 course. There is a call for proposals for those interested in modifying an OER resource or creating ancillaries for a TXT0 course. We are also inviting proposals to create an OER course or textbook to convert a class to TXT0.

Please read this announcement for details and sign up for these great opportunities! (All compensation is based on eligibility for overload.) If you have any questions, you can email Sunny at sunyeen@hawaii.edu.

Best wishes for anOTHER OERsome year!

UHCC OER INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR AY 2023

The UHCC OER leads from our seven colleges are offering another systemwide professional development program and awards for modification and creation projects for academic year 2023. Professional development opportunities include textbook review workshops and an in-depth asynchronous UHCC OER 101 course. There is a call for proposals for those interested in modifying an OER resource or creating ancillaries for a TXT0 course. We are also inviting proposals to create an OER course or textbook to convert a class to TXT0.

Please read this announcement for details and sign up for these great opportunities! (All compensation is based on eligibility for overload.) If you have any questions, you can email Sunny at sunyeen@hawaii.edu.

Best wishes for anOTHER OERsome year!

This Friday, come talk story with Sheryl Shook as she shares her OER journey

Join us for OER Office Hours Session #7 topic, Your Sustainable OER Journey.

Topic Description: 

A presentation by Sheryl Shook (Assistant Professor in Natural Science/Biological Science at Kapiʻolani Community College) concludes our spring 2022 sessions with a reminder that there’s always a place for you in the landscape of OER. Sheryl will share her own inspired OER journey as we discuss together how to align our professional values with OER opportunities for sustainable impact.

Zoom link: go.hawaii.edu/VPZ

Date: Friday, 4/22/22

Time: 9:00am – 10:00am

Topic: Your Sustainable OER Journey

End of semester OER talk story! Two more OER Office Hours

4/8/22, Friday, 9:00-10:00am – Let’s Make OER: UH Pressbooks and OER Commons Hub

Topic Description: Have you been waiting for the right moment to start making OER? Presenter Billy Meinke-Lau (OER Technologist, UHM Outreach College) introduces authoring platforms Pressbooks and the UH OER Commons Hub. Stop by and share with us your OER creation questions.

4/22/22, Friday, 9:00-10:00am – Your Sustainable OER Journey

Topic Description: A presentation by Sheryl Shook (Assistant Professor in Natural Science/Biological Science at Kapiʻolani Community College) concludes our spring 2022 sessions with a reminder that there’s always a place for you in the landscape of OER. Sheryl will share her own inspired OER journey as we discuss together how to align our professional values with OER opportunities for sustainable impact.

Zoom link:  go.hawaii.edu/VPZ

Here’s a flyer to remind you!

OER Office Hours is a project of the UHCC OER Team. Each session includes a topic presentation and discussion, as well as open time for questions related to OER and open education. If you have any questions, please contact Jason Yamashita (Leeward CC Library) at jasonty@hawaii.edu or by phone at 808-455-0674.

OER Office Hours (open educational resources)

We have a three session line-up!

Don’t miss our textbook heroes Carl Polley and Sheryl Shook talk about their work with OER.

4/1/22, Friday, 9:00-10:00am – OER Creation Project Spotlight

Topic Description: Tune in to hear Carl Polley talk about his CHN 102 course and Windward Community College’s Christian Palmer talk about his OER project on sustainability.

After that,

4/8/22, Friday, 9:00-10:00am – Let’s Make OER: UH Pressbooks and OER Commons Hub

Topic Description: Have you been waiting for the right moment to start making OER? Presenter Billy Meinke-Lau (OER Technologist, UHM Outreach College) introduces authoring platforms Pressbooks and the OER Commons Hub. Stop by and share with us your OER creation questions.

4/22/22, Friday, 9:00-10:00am – Your Sustainable OER Journey

Topic Description: A presentation by Sheryl Shook (Assistant Professor in Natural Science/Biological Science at Kapiʻolani Community College) concludes our spring 2022 sessions with a reminder that there’s always a place for you in the landscape of OER. Sheryl will share her own inspired OER journey as we discuss together how to align our professional values with OER opportunities for sustainable impact.

Zoom link:  go.hawaii.edu/VPZ

Here’s a flyer to remind you!

OER Office Hours is a project of the UHCC OER Team. Each session includes a topic presentation and discussion, as well as open time for questions related to OER and open education. If you have any questions, please contact Jason Yamashita (Leeward CC Library) at jasonty@hawaii.edu or by phone at 808-455-0674.

Open Educational Resources (and TXT0) Office Hours: April 1

Come visit the next OOH and listen to our very own Carl Polley talk about his adventures in OER! Carl is the Chinese discipline coordinator at Kapiʻolani Community College.  He has published an OER textbook for CHN101 on LibreTexts, and is currently working on the development of an OER textbook and course materials for CHN102.

Join us in Zoom. All UHCC faculty and staff are welcome to attend. No registration required.

Join us for OER Office Hours (Session #5) on Friday, April 1, 2022. In the fall semester we showcased two awarded UHCC OER Incentive Program proposals from faculty working on OER modification projects. We now invite you to learn about our OER creation project awardees who will share their project proposals, current experiences, and lessons learned. We have two scheduled presenters for the April 1st session – Carl Polley (Kapiʻolani CC) and Christian Palmer (Windward CC). They will share their progress on their OER creation projects.

Date: Friday, 4/1/22
Time: 9:00am – 10:00am
Topic: OER Creation Project Spotlight

Zoom link:  go.hawaii.edu/VPZ

OER Office Hours is a project of the UHCC OER Team. Each session includes a topic presentation and discussion, as well as open time for questions related to OER and open education. If you have any questions, please contact Jason Yamashita (Leeward CC Library) at jasonty@hawaii.edu or by phone at 808-455-0674.

Happy New Textbooks!! Over $4 million saved!

Kapiʻolani Community College students saved $480,000 in textbooks for fall 2021 and, since 2016, over $4 million!!  We have listened and we have been making it possible for students to take classes with NO TEXTBOOK COSTS, something students have asked for.

Many thanks and congratulations to all the faculty, lecturers, staff, secretaries, program/department chairs, HR, Business Office, and administrators (yes, it takes a village) who have made it just a little bit easier for our students to succeed in higher education and survive the high costs!

If youʻd like to get a training on how to offer Textbook Cost $0 (TXT0) classes, the UHCC OER Textbook Incentive Program’s spring 2022 registrations continue now through January 7, 2022 for the following professional development trainings:

OR, if you just canʻt make those registration and meeting dates, learn on YOUR own schedule: The OER 101 training has an asynchronous option with a registration deadline of March 31, 2022 and final completion date of April 30, 2022.

For more information, please see this PDF and email Sunny at the library, sunyeen@hawaii.edu