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Welcome!The Library has a multitude of Eresources to support teaching and learning at Hinds. Eresources are available 24/7 from anywhere. Listed are a few things we thought might interest you. If you don’t see anything you like, contact us and we’ll help you find what you need! -Hinds Community College Libraries
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OER Models Models and information about academic institutions using OERs. |
CCCOER - Community College Consortium for OER
UCLA Library's Affordable Course Materials
E-Textbooks at Atkins Library - NOT OER, it is a curriculum driven library acquisition model
Louisiana State University - Free E-Textbooks
North Carolina State University - Alt-Textbook Project
University of Arizona - Open Educational Resources
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OERs Peer-reviewed Open Text Books and other completely free scholarly resources and collaborations |
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OER Journals Peer-reviewed Open Journals. |
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OERs and Libraries OER Collaborations with Libraries |
Affordable Course Materials by 
The Brightly Illuminated Path: Facilitating an OER Program at Community College by
The use of Open Education Resources represents a noble cause, but the idea often remains elusive for many faculty members. In 2015, librarians at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, implemented a campaign to promote and facilitate the use and development of OERs. The primary objective was to reduce the growing financial burden on students in textbook purchase requirements. Concomitant goals were to provide instructors with greater academic control and freedom in course content, and to add to the pool of knowledge and resources for collaborative faculty work. The core of the Queensborough campaign was the offer of grants to foster the creation of OERs. The campaign was successful, resulting in the growing presence of OERs on campus steadily gaining momentum.
From Course Reserves . . . to Course Reversed? The Library’s Changing Role in Providing Textbook Content by
Academic libraries have always thought of “content” as their domain on campus. Yet beyond the course reserve desk, libraries have traditionally played a relatively small role on campus for the most common form of content in higher education, textbooks. Today, everything about textbooks and other course content is changing quickly. Spiraling costs have made textbooks a political issue in some states, while at the same time traditional textbook publishers experience economic pressures both from the growth of the used and rental markets and from new technological demands from the professors who assign their online books as well as from the students who use them. Librarians have begun to take notice, reversing course on the traditional library view of textbooks. A number of libraries are looking for more affordable ways for students to access textbooks. Many are leveraging open educational resources (OER) as alternatives to expensive, commercially-published textbooks. Other libraries have themselves become textbook publishers. This changed course has led librarians sometimes into new alliances and sometimes into degrees of conflict with other organizations, such as bookstores, commercial publishers, university presses, and aggregators.
Incentives and Barriers to OER Adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of Faculty Perceptions. by
In this paper, 218 U.S faculty responses regarding Open Educational Resources (OER) were qualitatively analyzed. Ten categories emerged in the coding process. The top three categories that indicated barriers to the adoption of OER were need more information (faculty wanted more information before they would be willing to adopt OER), lack of discoverability (faculty wanted to be able to easily find repositories of OER), and confusing OER with digital resources (faculty were unaware of the difference between digital resources and OER). The top incentives identified in this analysis to overcome these barriers include student cost benefits (saving students money), student pedagogical benefits (faculty being able to make changes to OER to improve course content and instruction), and institutional support for the adoption of OER (whether in the form of course load reduction, curricular research assistance, or library support for finding and adopting OER). Future research is needed to better understand how to address and overcome these barriers to OER adoption.
The Open Textbook Toolkit: Seeding Successful Partnerships for Collaboration Between Academic Libraries and University Presses by
Libraries and university presses coexist in a complex and increasingly consolidated scholarly communication ecosystem. Each brings different strengths, values, and viewpoints that can inform and enrich a joint project. In this paper we discuss potential barriers to and benefits of collaboration between academic libraries and university presses and introduce a case study of such a collaboration: the Open Textbook Toolkit. This project, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is currently investigating the components needed to support faculty in one discipline, psychology, who are considering adopting open educational resources. By leveraging both library and press expertise, the Toolkit represents one model for fruitful collaboration.
Textbook Affordability: Is There a Role for the Library? by
Try searching the library catalog, as many students do each semester for the latest version of the textbook being used in a class at many universities and you will likely come up empty-handed. Many academic libraries—due to high prices, frequently issued new editions, and a tendency to go missing from the collection—have justifiably chosen to play only a marginal role in the provision of textbooks on campus. However, the dynamics of the textbook market are changing rapidly and this presentation explored the question: Should libraries reconsider the roles they play in the provision of course materials on campus? This session focused on the issue of affordability in the context of the rapid evolution and increased availability of e-textbooks (electronic versions of textbooks). Topics covered included: an overview of the e-textbook market, purchasing options and outlets for e-textbooks, new business models for institutional access to e-textbooks, potential savings from e-textbook adoptions, information on negotiating with publishers and platform providers, and why the library is well-positioned to play a prominent role in the provision of e-textbooks.
The Trending Librarian by
The article discusses concepts of open educational resources (OER) and Creative Commons licensing for the library sector.
UCLA Library Works with Faculty to Cut Students’ Cost for Course Materials by
Program pays off for students, faculty, the library and general public.
Judith Hilkert
Technical Services Coordinator - District Libraries
jrhilkert@hindscc.edu
601-857-3355
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Jackson Campus - Academic/Technical Center - 601.987.8123 * Jackson Campus - Nursing/Allied Health Center -601.376.4816 *Rankin Campus - 601.936.5538 * Raymond Campus -601.857.3255 * Utica Campus - 601.885.7035 * Vicksburg Campus - 601.629.6846 |
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