Demonstrate Impact

• Submit a course impact report that includes: final syllabus; assessment; anonymous data on grades, including drop, fail, and withdraw rates; analysis and future textbook plans; student evaluations of the free textbook(s)
• Ideal target is first semester teaching with the OER once the student have had enough exposure to the textbook to provide feedback. Most grant recipients distribute within the last month of each semester: total of 4 semesters.
• Samples of the Qualtrics faculty and student surveys are below.
• OER Coordinator will:
  • Share at the beginning of the implementation semester and each semester of the grant.
  • Send reminder emails mid-semester.
  • Provide a list of students that have completed, upon request.  Please provide course roster.

Serve as an Advocate

• Collaborate with UTSA Libraries to publish a Textbook Hero Profile
• Participate in a Adopt A Free Textbook webinar as panelist

Adhere to Timeline

• Complete planned activities and deliverables according to the timeline presented in the application
• Check in via Teams/email with OER Coordinator on at least a monthly basis for the duration of the project to report on progress.

Commit to Learning: Complete OER Design Certification Course (4 hours)

• Complete an OER Design Certification Course (4 hours).
• Author will be enrolled in this asynchronous Blackboard course by OER Coordinator.

Comply with Spending Guidelines

• Spend funds in accordance with guidelines and university policy and maintain appropriate records of expenditures.

Ensure Quality

• Ensure OER are of high quality and meet accessibility standards as defined in “Accessibility.” Any remediation required to bring resources up to standards is the responsibility of the grant recipient.
• Consult with the Libraries on the use of any intellectual property that is not owned by the grant recipient, shared under a Creative Commons license that allows for reuse, or in the public domain. Determining ownership of third-party content is the responsibility of the grant recipient. Documentation demonstrating fair use and/or permissions for third-party content included in the OER shall be submitted with the deliverables.
• Provide copy editing and proofreading of any textual OER to ensure grammatical and spelling accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
• Provide attribution of any OER used, to include Title, Author, Source, and License, as outlined in Chapter 12: Attribution Statements in Faculty OER Toolkit. Authors may use the Open Attribution Builder to assist with creating attribution statements.

Share for Greater Impact

• Allow the Libraries to deposit OER resulting from the grant in Runner Research Press. All deliverables must be received by the Libraries prior to the distribution of the second funding transfer. Deliverables must include the original, editable files for re-distribution.
• If the project is for a Texas Core Course, upload materials to OERTX, the OER repository managed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, for sharing with other TCCN instructors in the state.
• Ensure that OER are delivered in enduring/sustainable formats as defined in Addendum.  Questions regarding file types should be addressed to Emily Johnson and DeeAnn Ivie  of the Libraries.
• Share usage statistics with the Libraries for any resources housed outside of Runner Research Press. This information will be requested annually and should be returned by the deadline included with the request.
• Acknowledge that full or partial support came from the UTSA Libraries Adopt a Free Textbook grant program administered by the UTSA Libraries in any publication or presentation about the project.

Library Support