Subject Guides: Open Educational Resources: OER Efforts at SPU

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Faculty-created OER works include:

AI, Faith, and the Future

ReCentering Psych Stats

ReCentering Psych Stats: Psychometrics

Elementary New Testament Greek

Beyond Borders

A World from Dust (Audiobook)

OER Efforts at SPU

A sampling of OER efforts from 2013 - present:

Launched Digital Commons @ SPU, SPU's institutional repository, with the intention of sharing open access scholarship (2013)
- Continuing to highlight exceptional student and faculty work (ongoing)
Faculty Development Committe funds open access project, "ShorChor," a website of OA English Choral Song pieces curated by David Anderson (2017)
EdSurge article published, "OER is Growing at Religious Colleges, But Raises Unique Challenges" (October 2018)
Hosted Open Textbooks and Other OER faculty webinar (August 2020)
Joined Open Education Network (December 2020)
- Funded nine Open Textbook Library reviews (2021-2022)
Funded six Open Educational Resources grants with ETM and donor funding (2022-2023)
- Led to creation of the following OER by faculty:
  - Elementary New Testament Greek by Owen Ewald (2022)
  - ReCentering Psych Stats by Lynette Bikos (2022)
  - ReCentering Psych Stats: Psychometrics by Lynette Bikos (2022)
  - Educational assessment text by David Denton (in progress)
  - International music theory collaboration by Brian Chin (in progress)
  - Physics energy chapters by Lane Seeley (in progress)
  - ReCentering Psych Stats additional text by Lynette Bikos (in progress)
Open Education Week and Open Access Week events hosted by library and ETM (2020-2023)
SPU Stories article published on "Easing student expenses with open-access textbooks" (March 2022)
ETM's Grace Seo completes Ph.D. dissertation Sustaining Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives in higher education: practices, successes, and challenges (2022)
Ongoing librarian and ETM outreach to faculty about open textbooks and other OER
Ongoing partnership between Library, ETM, Faculty Life Office, SPU Bookstore, and DEI stakeholders