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May 31 2022

2023 OpenHawks grants to help students save on textbooks

Posted on May 31, 2022June 16, 2022 by Mahrya Burnett

OpenHawksUniversity Libraries is pleased to announce another 12 OpenHawks grants for the development of open educational resources (OER). OpenHawks is a campus-wide grant program that funds faculty efforts to replace or avoid high-cost textbooks with OERs for enhanced student success.

The cohort of projects, which are slated to be completed in 2023, will save UI students $167,688 in the first year alone. Removing cost barriers to course materials opens student access and positively impacts learning. The funded OER projects, which were selected through a competitive application process, will benefit students in a wide range of disciplines, including law, radiation oncology, communication science and disorders, language learning, mathematics, library and information science, pediatrics, and social work.

The next call for proposals will be in the spring of 2023. For more information, visit www.lib.uiowa.edu/openhawks.

Jared Stiles and Emily Heithoff, Radiology, OER Creation Grant

Localization & Treatment Procedures in Radiation Therapy

Stiles and Heithoff team will develop an OER textbook for radiation therapy that would replace the textbooks currently used in the program. The OER will be regularly updated to account for developments in the field and will include a number of multimedia activities developed in collaboration with other radiation therapy programs.

Sean Rodriguez, Margaret Strampe, Andrew Goldstein, Caroline Yu, Salma Dawoud, and David Ramirez, Ophthalmology, OER Creation Grant

EyeRounds Anki: An Openly Licensed Resource for Ophthalmology Education

The group will develop EyeRounds Anki, an OER based on a free flashcard program that uses a spaced repetition algorithm to enhance knowledge acquisition and retention over traditional study methods. The resource is meant to increase global access to a body of knowledge that is currently only available as expensive, multi-volume books.

Jason Rantanen, Stella Elias, Derek Muller, Caroline Sheerin, and Maya Steinitz, Law, OER Creation Grant

Rules and Laws for Civil Actions

Grantee will develop an OER supplement in Pressbooks containing rules and statutory laws related to civil litigation. This will replace one of the textbooks in the intro to civil procedure course and will be referenced by students throughout their legal studies.

Philip Combiths, Communication Sciences and Disorders, OER Creation Grant

A Software Tool for Phonological Analysis and Treatment Target Selection

This project is for further development of phonological analysis software and an accompanying manual for students in speech pathology. It would modernize the process that speech language pathologists use to analyze children’s speech patterns by using digital transcription rather than the manual process currently used.

Maricelle Pinto-Tomas and Mariana Ruiz Nascimento, Spanish and Portuguese, OER Creation Grant

Primeiros passos: Portuguese for Beginners

This project aims to replace the current Portuguese textbook with an OER. It will address the current book’s deficiencies, with a focus on incorporating social justice pedagogy and avoiding the outdated stereotypes. The book is intended to save students money, increase learner motivation, facilitate cultural learning, and has the ability to be adopted outside the university.

Isabel Darcy, Mathematics, OER Creation Grant

Interactive Jupyter Textbook for Differential Equations

Darcy will replace the current text and homework system with an OER textbook in Jupyter Notebooks. She and a colleague have developed most of the content, and the PI hopes to hire a student to compile it all into an interactive text.

Micah Bateman, Library and Information Science, Support Materials Grant

Introduction to Metadata through Dublin Core

Bateman will develop resources for beginning users of the metadata standard, Dublin Core. The project will equip future librarians with skills often used in community and university archives, as well as in the digital humanities.

Alexander Tuttle, Vanessa Curtis, Jeffrey Pettit, and Katherine Schultz, Pediatrics, OER Creation Grant

An Inpatient Pediatric Diabetes Management Resource

The project team will develop a resource on pediatric diabetes management for residents at UIHC. A preliminary version has already been developed on Pressbooks, and this grant would allow them to further develop it and publish it as an OER.

Olga Sokratova, Mathematics, OER Creation Grant

Graph Theory and Applications

This project will replace several commercial texts with an OER targeted to the needs of the course. Sokratova hopes that this resource will allow students to use their class time more efficiently and spend more time actually solving math problems.

Susana Nkurlu, Swahili, OER Creation Grant

Developing Swahili Reading Comprehension Textbook

Nkurlu will develop an OER to supplement Swahili language learning. The objective is to make sure students start with the common knowledge before getting into more complex structures. Grantee will match collected stories with relevant pictures for ease of message comprehension.

Gregory Shill, Law, Remixing Grant

Transportation Law & Policy

For this interdisciplinary project on transportation law and policy, Shill proposes an OER to replace several costly textbooks. The work will incorporate multimedia and archival materials and could be used in several different classes at UI.

Megan Gilster and Aislinn Conrad, Social Work, Course Redesign Grant

Open to Working with Organizations and Communities

This team will create an OER using existing openly licensed materials, new content, and library resources. From the application, “For our pedagogy, we expect the impact to be a succinct, robust set of OER materials and a high-quality, new course that employs active learning teaching techniques.”

Posted in Faculty News, Main Library, Scholarly Communication, Scholarly ImpactTagged OER, Open Educational Resources, OpenHawks1 Comment
Mar 04 2021

Celebrating Open Education Week

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 by Mahrya Burnett

Open Education Week (March 1-5, 2021, #OEWeek) is a time when educators around the world come together to learn and share practices around Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Pedagogy. While there are a host of excellent webinars and events to tune into this week, let’s also celebrate our local faculty who are creating openly licensed resources, tailoring existing OER to better fit the needs of their students, and creating courses with fewer barriers to learning. Integrating OER into a course takes a lot of work, oftentimes uncompensated. But the result is well worth it. Students can access their course materials for free, from the first day of class. Ideally, the materials have been chosen and tailored to better align with the needs of the class, and they can be adapted easily if something isn’t working.   

OER Projects Underway 

UI Libraries supports faculty and graduate students working on OER projects through our OpenHawks grants program. There are currently 27 UI grant teams who are working on or have recently completed OER projects as part of this three-year pilot. You can read more about these projects at the links to our 2019 and 2020 announcements. Completed OpenHawks projects can be found in Iowa Research Online, as well as OER Commons, Open Textbook Library, and wherever else you go to find OER. The projects below are complete and ready to use.

  • Illana-Mahiques, Emilia; and Alejandro Pérez Belda. OER: Curso de Escritura En Español. University of Iowa, 2020. 

Description: The materials in this project are specifically designed for a third-year Spanish Writing course, offering guidance to instructors on how to develop each of the four modules that constitute the course: Description, narration, argumentation, and exposition. 

  • Myers, Brandon D. Guided Inquiry Activities for Programming Language Concepts. University of Iowa, 2020. 

Description: Guided Inquiry Activities for Programming Language Concepts is a collection of activities intended to support the use of POGIL—a research-based instruction strategy comprising peer learning, development of process skills, and activities that are designed around the constructivist theory of learning cycles (pogil.org)—in intermediate-level undergraduate computer science courses on functional programming and the implementation of programming languages.

  • Neal, Ted; Dunn, Rachel; Haley, Jenny; McDonald, Ella; Smith, Ben. Elementary Earth and Space Science Methods. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 2020.  

Description: This book is intended for use by future teachers, written from the perspective of students who have taken Science Methods II. The student authors gathered and created resources to help prospective elementary science teachers better understand science and feel confident in their abilities as future teachers. 

  • Pizzimenti, Marc A.; Brenneman, Anthony; Gorney, Carol; Hickman, James; Bernat, Carrie. Physical Examination: Cardiovascular System. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 2020. 

Description: At our institution, teaching basic physical examination (PE) skills capitalizes on the use of electronic resources and Standardized Patients (SP) with advanced training who are better able to assist students in developing their skills. This online module uses interactive methods, video, and concept applications to prepare learners for practice/review of the necessary components to develop a PE skill set.  

  • Wingate, Christine. American English Sounds. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa, 2018-2021. 

Description: American English Sounds is a web resource that allows English as a Second Language (ESL) students to practice perceiving and producing the sounds of American English in order to improve their pronunciation. 

  • Yoon, Sang-Seok; and Joung-A Park. Beginning Korean. Activity Book 1. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa, 2020. 

Description: The Korean Activity Book 1 is designed to provide various useful materials for practicing Korean. This book is ideal for learners at the Novice Low to Novice High levels who want to practice writing and pronouncing hangeul, communicate in Korean by creating sentences using basic grammar and vocabulary, and understand and create simple conversations that are useful in everyday conversations. 

More about OpenHawks 

We have just released our third Call for Proposals for additional OpenHawks grant funding. If you’re interested in applying or finding out more, I would encourage you to visit the OpenHawks website to learn about the different award categories and types of OER projects you might consider. You will also find more information about the application, including the rubrics we use to evaluate proposals, general information about OER, and links to upcoming informational sessions.  

Applications are due on April 30, 2021 so get yours in soon! 

Iowa Colleges and Universities Group on OER Commons 

Finally, I’m pleased to announce the new Iowa Colleges and Universities Group on OER Commons. OER in these collections have been adopted, created, or recommended by faculty in the state of Iowa. The purpose of this group is to share OER that have been adopted in the state and to make it easier for faculty to locate what they need. You will be able to find many of the completed OpenHawks projects in the group, as well.  

If you have any questions about OER, please contact me at mahrya-burnett@uiowa.edu.  

 

Posted in Scholarly Communication, Scholarly Impact, UncategorizedTagged Open Education Week, Open Educational Resources, OpenHawks

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