Assistant Professor

Millersville University

Course Development

Physical Chemistry I

The redesigned Physical Chemistry course will build upon existing high-quality OER available through LibreTexts and develop supplemental videos and assignments to supplement the currently available OER content. The developed materials, syllabus, videos, and assignments will be developed accessibly with the help of an instructional designer and shared with a CC-BY license.

Matt Fox, Instructional Designer, Millersville University

Professor of Spanish

Franklin & Marshall College

OER Development Grant

Intermediate Spanish I

While textbooks have the advantage of providing a whole course package to students and instructors, the materials are static. The great advantage of OER is the flexibility to update materials to make them more relevant to students’ lives and interests and connect to issues and topics in the Hispanic world. The immediate goal of the project is to develop/curate grammar explanations with a sufficient number and variety of online exercises to supply the homework and evaluation needs of third semester Spanish.

Team members: Ana Anderson, Teaching Professor at Franklin & Marshall College; Jialing Liu, Senior Teaching Professor at Franklin & Marshall College.

Communication Librarian

Millersville University

OER Development

The OER Adoption Journey

This project will revise and openly distribute a course to support faculty OER/ZTC adoption, while focusing on supporting student learning within the course being redesigned. This three module course is designed to model best practices in online learning when using OER materials.

Team members: Dr. A. Nicole Pfannenstiel, Assistant Professor of English, Millersville University & Matthew Fox, Instructional Designer, Millersville University

Library Director, former Interim Library Director

Lebanon Valley College

Course Development BIO 223: Human Nutrition, BIO 224 Human Nutrition for Athletic Training, and EXSC 430: Nutritional Aspects of Exercise and Eating Disorders

The Biology and Exercise Science faculty will work together to identify existing OER appropriate for courses, re-brand, and develop existing course structure to encourage collaboration to ensure differentiation between courses and assignments to meet major requirements. Deliverables include: syllabi, power point slides, 3-day diet project, case studies, and course modules.

Team members: Dr. Erica Unger, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of Neuroscience at Lebanon Valley College, Dr. Lori Thomas, Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at Lebanon Valley College, and Ms. Jasmine Bucher, Director of Educational Technology at Lebanon Valley College.

Associate Professor of History & Government

Misericordia University

Course Development

US History to 1865; US History since 1865 (both halves of the US history survey)

This grant supports the transformation of general education courses at MU and college-prep courses at WSCTC, eliminating textbook costs and reframing the course content to be more attentive to diversity and inclusion. These changes will dramatically improve accessibility for low-income students.

Team members: Allan Austin, Professor of History (Misericordia University); Mary Kay Kimelewski, Adjunct Professor of History (Misericordia University) and History Department Chair, West Side Career & Technology Center

Dean for Academic Affairs

Immaculata University

Course Development

Introduction to Sociology; Logic and Knowledge (philosophy); Elementary Spanish I; Elementary Spanish II; Healthcare Information Systems; Research and Analysis using Statistics; Statistics (psychology); Statistics (business); American Politics and Government; Public Speaking.

The project transitions ten courses from textbooks to OER and/or developer-created/web-based content. The selected courses serve a wide segment of the university’s undergraduate population, including many first generation and/or from underserved populations, and potentially have broader impact (through cross registration) for students at other SEPCHE consortium schools.

Team members: Darcey Doyle, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Immaculata University; Sergio Aclo, Manager of Online Learning, Immaculata University

Associate Professor

Indiana University of PA

OER Development Grant

Applications of Business Mathematics

Our project is to create interactive, dynamic assignments integrating GeoGebra and WebWorK. These assignments will be free and available to all students enrolled in Applications of Business Mathematics and its co-requisite course Business Mathematics. They will also be available to instructors at other institutions through WebWorK’s Open Problem Library.

Team members: Assoc. Professor Valerie Long (IUP), Professor Timothy Flowers (IUP)

Associate Professor of History

Saint Francis University

OER Development Grant

U.S. History to 1877

I am crafting a short, zippy, open-access text for the course “U.S. History to 1877,” combining pithy narrative with student activities such as freewriting and analysis of primary source documents. My text encourages students to explore multiple, competing perspectives about the past, and to relate the past to the world today.

Assistant Professor

Widener University

OER Development Grant

Engineering Vibrations

This project is aimed at developing online textbook and lecture notes for the junior year Mechanical Engineering course known as Vibrations.

Cataloging & Metadata Librarian

Saint Joseph's University

Library Licensed Materials Grant

This project will primarily support ENG 312 Modern Irish Drama, and provide supplemental support for ENG 311 21st Century Irish Literature, ENG 309 British/Irish Immigration Lit, ENG 150 National Identity in Modern Irish Literature, and ENG 404 English, Irish, Anglophone Authors. While supporting the implementation of ENG312, saving the initial student cohort over $14,000, the impact of this project is far wider. Texts will be used in other courses, with an anticipated cost avoidance of $66,000 for students over five years. The availability could enable adoption by other departments.

Team members: Dr. Kersti Tarien Powell, Associate Professor, English Department

Adjunct Professor

Lincoln University

Course Development

Introduction to Sociology, Social Statistics, Research Methods

This project aims to redesign three sociology courses with zero-cost materials for students. In addition to affordability, this project will seek out materials that are both inclusive and diverse. In other words, materials that can be adapted for accessibility and include diverse sociological perspectives written with diverse audiences in mind.

Team members: Professor Sophia Sotilleo, Director of Lincoln University Library Services and Mrs. Ugochi Nwachuku, Assistant Professor and Library Liaison to the Sociology department

Associate Professor of Communication

University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Course Development

Public Speaking

PA GOAL funding will support the development of weekly course modules to connect with the various foundational topics and concepts necessary to teaching Public Speaking. I will create student-centered, user-friendly content that serves the learning objectives and goals of effective oral communication.

Adjunct

Point Park University

OER Development Grant

Introduction to Physical & Space Science

Redesign undergraduate core course using OpenStax.org (part of Rice University) free textbooks for the classes that meet Fall 2021. The students will use the online Astronomy, Physics, and Chemistry textbooks with listed required readings, lectures, quizzes, and exams, based on curriculum laid out on their syllabus and schedule and their online management system. Being able to work on the course while teaching is a plus with the site bringing new material for study.

Director of Teaching and Learning

Reading Area Community College

Course Development

Principles of Chemistry, Intro to Philosophy, Ethics

Reading Area Community College (RACC) has targeted high-enrollment general education courses to be developed using Open Educational Resources. Access to zero-cost textbooks should lessen the financial burden on RACC students. The decreased financial burden should increase access to content and student success.

Team members: Dr. Daniel Czerny, STEM Instructor; Joshua Cutts, Humanities Instructor

Dean, Learning Resources & Online Learning

Bucks County Community College

Course Development

Foundations for Early Learning: Pre K-4; Early Learning and Development I: Ages Birth-5; Educational Psychology

Removing Financial Barriers to Students of Early Childhood Education in Pennsylvania" will result in new ZTC LMS templates for three courses required in our Pre K-4 Early Education Program. The templates will be made universally available for adoption in Canvas Commons.

Team members: Alison Angelaccio, Assistant Professor, Education, Bucks County Community College, subject matter expert (SME); Mary Ellen Bornak, retired Professor, Bucks County Community College, instructional designer; Debra Carney, part-time library faculty and Faculty Accessibility Advocate, Bucks County Community College, accessibility/UDL consultant; Kate D'Auria, Associate Professor, Education, Bucks County Community College, SME; Karen Kaplinski, Professor, Education and Psychology, Bucks County Community College, SME; Randi Wall, part-time library faculty, project librarian

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Haverford College

Course Development

Ling 215 Structure of Colonial Valley Zapotec

This project advances the creation of the open educational resource "Cali Chiu: A Course in Valley Zapotec" (https://oer.haverford.edu/cali-chiu/), which will be used to make my future Zapotec courses free of any material costs for students. This resource can also be used in other courses or for independent study for anyone interested in learning a Valley Zapotec language, and Indigenous language of Oaxaca, Mexico. The timing is particularly exciting as January 2022 will be the start of UNESCO's Decade of Indigenous Language.

Team members: Pamela Munro (UCLA) and Felipe H. Lopez (Seton Hall University)

Professor & Faculty Chair, Business

Peirce College

Course Development

Peirce College is a non-profit, Predominantly Black Institution, focusing on working adult students who often struggle to make ends meet. This project will redevelop five business courses. The first three are required in a stackable certificate program which aligns seamlessly with the AS in Leadership Development, and are also required in several Business/Leadership and Liberal Studies degree programs:

• Essentials of Customer Service

• Organizations and People

• Introduction to Supervision

The fourth course, Introduction to Marketing, is required by nine degree programs and currently has a high textbook cost. Likewise, the fifth course, Concepts in eCommerce, currently has a textbook cost exceeding $200.

Team Member: Kristin Inciardi, Director, Library Services

Reference Librarian

Mount Aloysius College

Course Development

BIOL 210 Microbiology

Our team is redesigning one section of the college's BIOL 210 Microbiology course to be offered with zero materials costs. The materials used are a combination of existing OER and materials designed by team members. We hope to offer additional zero-cost sections of this course in the future.

Team members: Dr. Merrilee Anderson, Professor of Science and Mathematics; Dr. Crystal Goldyn, Associate Professor of Science and Mathematics; Ms. Lauren Coakley, Educational Technologies Coordinator

Assistant Professor

Penn State Berks

OER Development Grant

Advanced Food Production and Service Management; Entrepreneurship, Product, and Concept Development

Our project will substantially revise and adapt an entrepreneurship-focused pop-up restaurant business guide to a cost-effective, OER text-alternative available to Hospitality Management (HM) students at Penn State Berks, Penn State campuses, partner institutions and post-secondary hospitality institutions with capstone projects.

Team members: Sarah Hartman-Caverly, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Penn State Berks | Penn State University Libraries; Shawn Murray, Assistant Professor Tourism and Hospitality Management & Interim Director Culinary Arts Institute, Montgomery County Community College

Assistant Professor of Communication

Northampton Community College

OER Development Grant

Introduction to Communication

This project will develop ancillary materials to supplement the basic communication course. The materials will help provide resources that are commonly available for distribution from publishers such as chapter outlines, slides, discussion questions, and a starting test bank to help facilitate the adoption of open education textbooks in the basic communication course.

Assistant Professor

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

OER Development Grant

ANTH 110 - Contemporary Anthropology

The Anthropology Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is developing an Open Educational Resource (OER) for the Department’s introductory, four-field Anthropology course, Contemporary Anthropology (ANTH 110). Although OERs abound for specific Anthropology subfields, such as Cultural Anthropology or Biological Anthropology, there is surprisingly no OER dedicated to an introductory four-field approach class, despite the ubiquity of four-field introductory courses. The proposed OER will fill that gap.

Team members: Ben Ford, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Anthropology, IUP; Lara Homsey-Messer, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, IUP; Amanda Poole, Professor, Department of Anthropology, IUP; Abigail Adams, Professor, Department of Anthropology, IUP; William Chadwick, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, IUP; Frances Allard, Professor, Department of Anthropology, IUP

Assistant Professor of CSD/SLP

Lebanon Valley College

OER Development Grant

CSD 110: Introduction to Research and Writing in CSD/SLP and SLP701: Research Methods in SLP

We are writing an open textbook and developing instructional materials for research and writing in CSD/SLP. Topics will include: Why SLPs writing and how to write a lot, reflective (personal writing), academic writing, clinical writing, and research methods including: literature reviews, and group, single-subject, qualitative, and mixed method research designs. Through the peer-review process, we seek to partner with and disseminate to other institutions throughout Pennsylvania.

Team members: Maureen Bentz, Interim Library Director, Lebanon Valley College; Helga McCullough, Assistant Professor of CSD/SLP, Lebanon Valley College; Jasmine Bucher, Director of Educational Technology, Lebanon Valley College; Courtney Hughey, SLP graduate student, Lebanon Valley College; Megan Leiby, SLP graduate student, Lebanon Valley College; Samantha Lowe, SLP graduate student, Lebanon Valley College; Brooke August, SLP graduate student, Lebanon Valley College; Camryn Ruopp, SLP graduate student, Lebanon Valley College

Assistant Professor/Learning Design Librarian

Millersville University

Course Development

ENGL 280: Introduction to Rhetoric for Writers

The collaborating librarian and English professor will build upon existing high-quality Library unlimited user access materials to focus on developing supplemental reading materials, videos, quizzes, projects, and assignments to support an ENGL 280, Rhetoric for Writers Course. These collaboratively created materials, syllabus, quizzes, videos, projects and assignments will be shared with a CC-BY license to MERLOT.

Team member: Dr. Nicole Pfannenstiel, Associate Professor, Millersville University

Head of Technical Services

Saint Francis University

Library Licensed Materials Grant

Occupational Therapy program

The project will reduce the cost of materials from around $4000 to around $200 for three years.

Team members: Lorie Rowles, Kerri Golden

Professor

Gettysburg College

Course Development

Mass Media and Popular Culture

I will be developing a course that is zero cost to student by using OER and other no cost materials. This is part of a larger project to lower costs of course material in all of my courses.

Team members: Sydney Kaplan , Student Assistant; Mary Elmquist, Library

Associate Professor

Misericordia University

Course Development

Introduction to Physical Science

Curate OER materials for an introductory physics course focused towards non-science students. The course contains a broad selection of topics with a shallow use of algebra and trigonometry.

Associate Professor of Spanish

Saint Joseph's University

Course Development

SPA 301: Spanish Conversation

The goal is redesign the syllabus with OER adapted ancillary resources and newly-designed materials with an emphasis on oral linguistics skills and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Team members: Ms. Esther Recio, Visiting Professor of Spanish; Mr. César Caballero, Visiting Professor of Spanish. Saint Joseph's University

Associate Professor of English

Delaware County Community College

OER Development Grant

REA 030: Developmental Reading I, REA 050: Developmental Reading II, REA 075: Integrated Reading and Writing

The goal of our project is to create an OER guidebook that addresses a pedagogical gap within developmental college reading by providing extensive inquiry into orthographic morphology, etymology, and phonology. Designed for instructors and students to use together as they deepen their orthographic knowledge, our book will also offer a financially accessible alternative to commercial textbooks and labs.

Team members: Kathy Hastings, Literacy Educator, College of Professional Studies, Villanova University; Adjunct Professor of Reading, Delaware County Community College

University Professor of Mathematics

Robert Morris University

OER Development Grant

Multivariable Calculus with Analytic Geometry

This proposal is to create a bank of WeBWorK problems to supplement the Active Calculus OER textbook. WeBWorK is a well-tested OER homework system. This proposed problem bank will focus on multivariable calculus content including applications to computer graphics, machine learning, and engineering and problems involving CalcPlot3D interactive graphs.

Dean of Library Service and Special Projects

Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

Course Development

Microcomputer Applications and Macroeconomics

For Microcomputer Applications there are no existing OER textbooks that address a crosswalk between Google and Microsoft products, thus making this project unique. For Macroeconomics, there are existing OER texts, however, this project will adapt those texts to live seamlessly within the Brightspace LMS.

Team members: Greg Paonessa, Instructor, Computer Technology; Mark Parfitt, Instructor, Business; Alexander Kirby, Instruction & Online Services Librarian; Dr. Jamie Petrilla, Instructional Designer.