One of my favorite quotes from the article:
"This initiative is about more than cost savings—it’s about creating inclusive, adaptable tools that meet the evolving needs of health care and higher education," Dr. Dawn Bowker, director of nursing education and clinical associate professor of nursing.

A lot of data was used to get a more complete picture of the courses, instructors, and students being studied, to help the researchers understand where variables might be affecting what they found. "Pulling this data was an experience," Heather Miceli notes. #OpenEd25

To meet all of their research goals, the team had to take multiple approaches, integrating an institutional survey (does your institution have support for #OER?), collecting course data, running focus groups, and surveying instructors. #OpenEd25

As the presenters share, High Impact Practices have evidence that they deepen learning within course settings and are proven to work for all students. And #OER can likely fall into this as well.

Katya is now sharing the method that they've developed to support and uplift faculty doing #OER work at NCSU. #OpenEd25

Katya and David start by underlining the real importance of this work: we can't do any work with #OER without the faculty who make, use, and sustain that work. And faculty recognition is one way we can make that importance clear.

As Open Access Week wraps up, I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at #OpenEd25 in Denver next week! I'll be presenting three times at the conference, plus an extra pre-conference workshop intended for newcomers to the field of open education.

Join us Oct. 20 from noon to 1pm Central for our #OpenAccessWeek keynote lecture by @juancommander.scholcommlab.ca, co-hosted by the three Iowa Regent universities.
Learn more and register to attend: iastate.libcal.com/event/15425542

Finally, we recently published a new Introductory Biology Lab Manual from two of our faculty here at Iowa State! The Biology Laboratory Manual is optimized for printing in PDF but also available in an online format via Pressbooks: doi.org/10.31274/isu...

Second on our list of newly published #OpenTextbooks is Fashion and Apparel Consumer Behavior. Adapted from an introductory consumer behavior textbook, this book provides students with an in-depth look at how consumer behavior relates to fashion & dress: doi.org/10.31274/isu...

I'm happy to share some newly published #OER from the ISU Digital Press! First up is the 2nd edition of one of our most popular books, Introduction to Soil Science! The new edition welcomes a new author, @rivkafidel.bsky.social along with several improvements & updates:
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The ISU Digital Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new #OpenAccess handbook, "A Guide to Writing the Statement of Purpose for Graduate School Applications" by Erin Todey. #OER
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I'm happy to share 3 new books from the ISU Digital Press:
"Do You Want to Major in Music?" "Food Preparation Lab Manual for FSHN 1150," and "Quantitative Problem Solving in Natural Resources."
Find these & more in the ISU Digital Press' Books catalog: www.iastatedigitalpress.com/plugins/books/

Here is an example map they provided for discussion: Youtube is more personal, email is more professional, reclaimhosting is professional but resident, and twitter sort of fell across lines.

Register to participate in my online, 1.5 hour introduction to the ins and outs of #OpenPedagogy, April 10 from 2-3:30pm CT! This crash course covers the theoretical and practical aspects of open pedagogy, and includes recommended readings for further exploration.
iastate.libcal.com/event/11868415