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OER and OpenHawks Grants

UI Libraries’ Support OER Use and Development

Mahrya Burnett, Scholarly Communications Librarian

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Open Educational Resources

“Open Educational Resources (OER)…are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which also carry legal permission for open use.”

SPARC

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5R Permissions

Permissions that are “baked in” to OER:

Revise (adapt, adjust, modify the content)
Remix (mixing content with other material)
Reuse (fully using content for any purpose)
Retain (making, owning, and controlling copies of content)
Redistribute (sharing original or altered versions)

Image credit: 5Rs by Ellen September, CC-BY 2.0

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What is OpenHawks?

Grant program supporting creation, adaptation, and use of OER by teaching faculty and graduate students

Goal: save students money and support their learning

Offers support for instructors who would like to use OER but need help (financial, time, editing, finding collaborators, etc.)
Finished projects saved to Iowa Research Online and distributed for external use

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OpenHawks Timeline 2023

Application deadline

Apps reviewed by librarians, faculty, instructional services specialists

Decisions made

Funding released; one year for project completion

April 28, 2023

May/June

2023

See the OpenHawks website for more resources

July 2023

What is OH?

Program administered by the Libraries that supports creation, adaptation, and use of OER by teaching faculty and grad students

The program provides financial support for faculty who would like to use OER but can’t do it in isolation. Financial, hands-on assistance, time, help with finding collaborators or materials

Faculty apply for one of the grant types that best fits what they’re trying to do, and we ask that they complete it within roughly a year.

Applications are reviewed by a team of librarians, faculty members, and instructional services specialists and then we select as many as we think are viable and for which there is funding.

Goal to save students money and support their learning

Open website to show different funding levels, upcoming events, and educational resources

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What we’ve done so far

54 grants awarded to date
Nearly 10,000 students impacted
$979,853 in cost savings to date
Finished projects can be found in Iowa Research Online, Open Textbook Library, and OER Commons

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Questions?

Mahrya Burnett

Scholarly Communications Librarian

mahrya-burnett@uioa.edu

319-335-5937

uiowa.edu