List of Open Resources Used by UNC Faculty Grantees

OER materials used by Round 1 grantees of OER Awareness and Infrastructure Building at the University of Northern Colorado grant, funded by the Colorado Department of Higher Education. https://libguides.unco.edu/OERcommittee/grant

Institutional Surveys Redux: Student and Faculty Responses on Course Materials During COVID-19

The presenter developed and distributed two campus survey questionnaires in fall 2018, and redistributed them in fall 2021, to see what, if anything, had changed in responses. One survey focused on textbook and course materials costs and impacts on students. The other survey focused on perceptions and awareness of open educational resources (OER) by faculty members. The survey instruments were deployed both years via the Provost\u27s Office to students and faculty. This session features an analysis of results and implications of the fall 2021 survey results, how the themes and trends compared to the fall 2019 surveys; how survey data can be used for understanding, advocacy, and advancing OER initiatives; and a look at the pros and cons of conducting campus surveys

Textbook and Course Materials Cost Impacts on University of Northern Colorado Students Survey Questions

This survey was distributed to University of Northern Colorado students in both fall 2018 and fall 2021 to help determine impacts of course materials costs on students

Faculty Awareness, Attitudes, and Use of Open Educational Resources (OER) at the University of Northern Colorado survey questions

This survey was created and distributed to UNC faculty in both fall 2018 and fall 2021

Suspicious Spirits, Flexible Minds: When Distrust Enhances Creativity

Considering that distrust is a core element of human interaction, it has received surprisingly little scientific attention. This research contributes to filling this gap by investigating distrust’s influence on creativity. Intuitively as well as in light of prior research, distrust and creativity appear incompatible. The social consequences of distrust include reluctance to share information, a quality detrimental to creativity in social settings. At the same time, the cognitive concomitants of distrust bear resemblance to creative cognition: Distrust seems to foster thinking about non-obvious alternatives to potentially deceptive appearances. This tendency resembles cognitive flexibility, which is conducive to creativity. These cognitive underpinnings of distrust hold the provocative implication that distrust may foster creativity. Mirroring these contradictory findings, I suggest that the social vs. cognitive consequences of distrust have diverging implications for creativity. I address this question in Study 1 by introducing private/public as a moderating variable for effects of distrust on creativity. Consistent with distrust’s social consequences, subliminal distrust (vs. trust) priming had detrimental effects on creative generation presumed to be public. Consistent with distrust’s cognitive consequences, though, the opposite emerged in private. Study 2 replicated a beneficial effect of distrust on private creative generation with a different priming method. Studies 3 and 4 showed increased category inclusiveness vs. increased remote semantic spread after distrust priming. The latter findings are consistent with enhanced cognitive flexibility as a consequence of distrust. Taken together, these results provide evidence for the creativity-enhancing potential of distrust and suggest cognitive flexibility as the process in question