Panel Discussion: Provost\u27s Open Educational Resource (OER) Fellows

While the adoption of open educational resources (OERs) in the undergraduate curriculum has the evident benefit of reducing cost to the student, thinking deeply about OER adoption reveals numerous questions: can OERs match the quality of traditional textbooks and other commercial educational resources? Are there problems associated with the current textbook landscape that OERs can solve? And how easily can OERs be integrated into classrooms with established modes of instruction? Each of the Provost’s OER Fellows will discuss briefly some of the most important conclusions from the current OER research literature and discuss these in the context of SUNY Albany and its students. They will be sharing their experiences adopting and adapting OER materials for courses in the humanities and the sciences

Open Access Policy: From Directive to Draft

In March 2018, SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson issued a resolution directing each SUNY campus to develop a campus-specific open access polic[y] for faculty, student, and staff scholarship and creative works. UAlbany\u27s Provost subsequently charged the Libraries, Information Systems and Computing (LISC) committee with drafting a policy in response to the Chancellor\u27s call. Now in draft form, and following on the October 17th Faculty Forum, the Libraries are hosting a Q&A session with key participants in the policy\u27s development, from SUNY OLIS to the OA Policy Working Group members