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NYS OER Funding

August 31, 2017

Mark McBride

Library Senior Strategist,

SUNY Office of Library and Information Services

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NYS OER Funding = $8 Million

$4 Million to SUNY
High Enrollment, General Education Courses

Baseline funding	Individual sections	All sections of a course
$20,000	$8 per student enrollment	$15 per student

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$4 Million to SUNY OER

SUNY covers enrollments for initial sections in year 1
Campuses develop a model to sustain OER adoption/creation
Classes run for 3 years to ensure enrollments increase & research can be conducted
Funds should be used to help existing or new OER initiatives on campus
Funds will be dispersed in 3 cycles

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Funds Distribution

The funds are in process to be distributed
State Ops will be assigned an account number
Community Colleges will receive a check ℅ the person identified as the campus lead
First round of funds will come out in the next couple weeks
Second round will come out in December
Third round will come out in the Spring (if funds are left)

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OER Infrastructure Update

SIRIS identifier
Coding in other SIS at MCC, FMCC, and Tompkins-Cortland
OER RFI responses are under review
SUNY OpenStax Partnership
Existing contract with Lumen covers all campuses
We have been speaking with Iskme who produced the OER Commons oercommons.org

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SIRIS Definition

Open Educational Resources (OER): are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others.

A SUNY OER course/section: provides students a cost effective alternative to traditional textbooks. The majority of materials in this section resides in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others.

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Coding in SIS

FMCC and Tompkins-Cortland have codes their SIS to designate the OER Courses (POWER)
MCC and Herkimer have as well (Banner)
We plan on trying to get campuses to speak with one another so they use a similar coding process.
Here is Banner Code info:

Attribute Code: STVATTR

OER Course Fee: SFARGFE (or possibly) SSADETL

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Sustainability

Some of our community colleges have voted and approved to add OER course fees in classes where the content has been replaced by OER.
These fees help to build sustainability on the campus for OER initiatives. OER money won’t last forever
State-ops do not have the same processes for new fees as community colleges.

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