Leeward OER Creation Incentive Award (LOERCA)
From 2018-2021, the OER Campus Committee supported an incentive award program for Leeward faculty and lecturers. In AY 2021-22, the Leeward program was discontinued, and a new UHCC system program was launched. For more information about the UHCC OER Incentive Program, go to the UHCC OER website.
Purpose
The purpose of the LOERCA is to support faculty in the creation and development of OER textbooks and other educational materials which are designed to replace traditional commercial textbooks.
Eligibility
Any full-time faculty member or lecturer teaching a credit-based course (3 credits or more) at Leeward CC. A faculty or lecturer who previously applied may re-apply provided s/he has not been chosen as a recipient of this award within the last five (5) years
Goal
Develop original OER materials where none exists or revise and remix existing OER with the addition of original content.
Award
Guidelines
This award is not for the adoption of an existing OER. It is designed to support the creation of openly licensed learning materials where none currently exists, or to substantially modify existing OER with original content which results in a wholly new and unique resource. The finished product will then be used in a TXT0 course at Leeward.
The materials developed
must align with the student learning outcomes in the course;
must include original content;
cannot include photos, images, charts, graphs or other content which are not under your copyright or have not been CC licensed by the copyright holder;
must properly attribute any content that is not original;
must be uploaded to an open access repository or an open publishing platform such as LibreText, UH Pressbooks, or the UH OER Repository;
must be openly licensed and freely shareable according to one of the following licenses: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-SA;
must not be for-profit or created with the purpose of selling to a publisher.
Criteria
Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Amount of original work to be included;
Total number of students enrolled in your sections of the course during the current academic year;
Current cost of the textbook. If the course is already TXT0, the cost of a textbook used in the same or a similar course;
Successful completion of Go Open, Go Free Using OER training or other equivalent OER training;
OER will be used in a 3-credit course.
Timeline
Application Period: March 1 - 31, 2021
Application Review: April 1 - 16, 2021
Notification by: April 21, 2021
Work Period: April 22 - December 31, 2021
Submission of Half Deliverable: July 23, 2021
Submission of Full Deliverable: December 31, 2021
Award Winners
Congratulations to 2021 Award Winner, Tasha Williams!
Tasha created 10 videos that can help students with navigating an online or hybrid course during the pandemic and beyond as they will encounter new academic, financial, and emotional difficulties due to the challenges of writing in online environments. With a focus on online or hybrid writing classrooms, the series aims to help students as they grapple with developing writing skills amid the ongoing fallout of the pandemic. Engaging topics range from, "The Online Writing Process & Academic Essay" to "Tips for Asynchronous ENG 100."
View the complete playlist at "Leeward CC Writing for College Success Series."
Prior to this award, Tasha completed several of the OER training workshops offered at Leeward. Upon completion of the project, the video series will be shared with Leeward CC ENG 100 instructors who may want to use it in their classes through Laulima and also made publicly available for the community to use.
Congratulations to 2020 Award Winners, Daniela Elliott and Paula Mejia Velasquez!
Daniela Elliott and Paula Mejia Velasquez will be creating an OER textbook for Botany and Horticulture. The completed textbook will be used by Leeward students in BOT 101, BOT 130, and HORT 110. The book will focus on the endemic flora of Hawai'i, where botany is bridged with the unique climate and geography. They plan to develop up to 70% of the material as original content, including 5 chapters that will cover Hawai’i’s unique environment. The remaining content will be a mixture of revised and remixed content from existing OER. Paula and Daniela have collaborations with faculty at Leeward as well as with faculty across the UH system. Prior to the award, they have already begun work on identifying and revising existing OER and have edited the first chapter of the textbook in the LibreTexts online textbook platform. Their project will be peer-reviewed and copyedited towards the goal of sharing it across the UH system. Upon completion, their textbook will be available for anyone to access in the LibreTexts platform.
Congratulations to 2019 Award Winner, I-Chia Shih!
I-Chia Shih will be creating OER lab manuals for Leeward Anatomy and Physiology students (PHYL 141L and 142L). This project has the potential impact to save our students at least $16,662 within an academic year. While I-Chia will be building upon and remixing existing content, about 70% of the content will be originally created, peer-reviewed, and copyedited. I-Chia has established a collaboration with other Anatomy and Physiology faculty within the UH System and they plan to help each other with the development of OER resources across campuses.
Congratulations to 2018 Award Winner, Kelsie Aguilera!
Kelsie Aguilera is serving as the managing editor and author of a high-quality, open access biological anthropology textbook with 100% original written content that will be written and peer-reviewed by experts in the field. It is the first of its kind and slated to be ready for use in Fall 2019. The edited book will be available free of charge under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License and housed on a website administered by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC), a professional anthropology organization that is part of the American Anthropological Association. In addition, the edited book will be made available on the University of Hawaii Open Educational Resources (OER) Repository and may be uploaded to UH Pressbooks.
Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology
The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State. Available free of charge for use in any setting.