Article
Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
(2017)
Abstract
This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs and expectations of K-State students and faculty, this initiative proposes a sustainable means of incentivizing faculty participation via institutional support, encouraging the creation and maintenance of OAER through recurring funding, promoting innovative realizations of “educational resources” beyond traditional textbooks, and rallying faculty participation in adopting increasingly open textbook alternatives. The history and resulting structure of the initiative raise certain recommendations for how public universities may sustainably offset student textbook costs while also empowering the pedagogies of educators via a more methodical approach to adopting open materials.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June, 2017
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3010
Citation Information
Jonathan Lashley, Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Andrew B Bennett and Brian L Lindshield. "Cultivating Textbook Alternatives From the Ground Up: One Public University’s Sustainable Model for Open and Alternative Educational Resource Proliferation" The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 18 Iss. 4 (2017) ISSN: 1492-3831 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rebel_cummings-sauls/29/