PA GOAL Cycle 2 supports 33 projects at 21 institutions. 9 at two-year public institutions, 7 at four-year public institutions, and 17 at private four-year institutions. Of the projects, 17 Course Development, 11 OER Development, and 5 Library Licensed Materials grants were awarded.
Below is the lead applicant's name, title, and institution. Also the type of grant awarded, the title(s) of course(s) the project will address, and a brief description of the project.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Lebanon Valley College
Course Development
Research Methods in Psychology
This project will replace the traditional textbook used for Psychology 211: Research Methods in Psychology with open-educational resources (OER). We plan to create and share several course activities, handouts, instructional videos, and discussion materials to complement the open-source textbook and enhance student learning.
Team members: Michael Kitchens, Professor of Psychology at Lebanon Valley College
Dean, Academic Affairs
Immaculata University
OER Development Grant
Adolescent Addiction (sociology); Business & Professional Speaking (communications); Contemporary Issues in Healthcare; Interpersonal Relationships (graduate core); Organizational Ethics (philosophy); Political, Social & Economic Structures of the Culture (education); Pupil Personnel Services; School Community Relations; Technology in Education; Testing and Assessment (education)
The project transitions ten courses from using textbooks to OER content. The four undergraduate courses fulfill requirements for several well-enrolled degree programs. The remaining six courses are graduate level: one serves six distinct master's programs through our master's core; the other five support a variety of graduate programs/certifications.
Team members: Darcey Doyle, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Immaculata University; Sergio Aclo, Manager of Online Learning, Immaculata University
Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics
Penn State University - Lehigh Valley Campus
OER Development Grant
MATH 110 - Techniques of Calculus I and MATH 140 - Calculus With Analytic Geometry I
The project will create a workbook to support student learning in first-year math courses with an emphasis on foundational calculus. The workbook will provide students with materials for additional practice and opportunities to test their learning, identify areas of struggle, and seek help without penalties for failure.
Team members: Larry Musolino - Lecturer of Mathematics and Elizabeth Nelson - Reference and Instruction Librarian
Associate Professor & Program Manager, General Education
Pierce College
Course Development
Assistant Professor of Education-TESOL
Wilson College
Course Development
Educational Perspectives in a Diverse Society
This project focuses on redesigning a graduate course Educational Perspectives in a Diverse Society (EDU 532). The course covers topics of diversity, poverty, racial discrimination, inequality, LGBTQ, and ethnicity. The main textbook will be an OER book “Social Problems: Continuity and Change”. Team members: James D’Annibale, Director of Educational Technology, Wilson College, PA
Community College of Philadelphia
Course Development
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Library Licensed Materials Grant
This project is focused on ten courses across the curriculum including courses in Biology, Counseling, Educational Leadership, Geography, Management, and Military Science. Over 70 textbooks were proposed by almost 50 Shippensburg University faculty members. 29 textbooks were available as ebooks with multiuser library licenses, prices for these ebook textbooks ranged from $6.19 to $2,499. 12 ebook textbooks, across 10 classes, qualified for project funding. Early informal feedback suggests that students have been excited to have free access to ebook versions of their textbooks.
Assistant Professor
Saint Vincent College
Course Development
Intro to Data Science and Analytics, Statistics I, and Statistics II
The project will include redesigning these courses to completely utilize open resources. Once the course is delivered, I will share my resources with other members of the College. I will find readings and videos for my students to use to prepare for class lessons, as well as appropriate datasets to use for in-class demonstrations and activities.
Associate Professor of Art History
Delaware County Community
College Course Development
Introduction to Art History
This project will develop syllabi, reading lists, and learning activities for three chronologically-based global Introduction to Art History courses that offer a more inclusive perspective on the History of Art and rely exclusively upon Open Educational Resources.
Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish
The Pennsylvania State University/ Hazleton campus
OER Development Grant
Intermediate Spanish
This Spanish Intermediate textbook is comprised of a series of task-based communicative activities that focus on the form so that students can acquire acts of speech, vocabulary, and grammar in context and create conversations related to the topics discussed. The author has developed modified Integrated Performance Assessments or IPAs as well as Presentation, Attention, Co-Construction, Extension activities also called PACE models.
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Studies
Gettysburg College
OER Development Grant
Principles of Ecology (Gettysburg College); Ecology (University of Pittsburgh); Our Changing World (University of Pittsburgh); Ecological Concepts and Applications (Franklin and Marshall College)
We are developing a comprehensive open textbook (LibreTexts) that is appropriate for use in intermediate-level ecology courses across a range of institutions. This textbook will include embedded coding exercises, spotlights on diverse ecologists, and case studies on environmental justice and Indigenous ecological knowledge.
Team members: University of Pittsburgh; Franklin and Marshall College Andrew Wilson (Associate Professor, Gettysburg College); Aaron Howard (Long-term Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College); Nathan Brouwer (Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh); Kyle Whittinghall (Lecturer and Academic Advisor, University of Pittsburgh); Daniel Wetzel (Lecturer and Academic Advisor, University of Pittsburgh); Taylor Zallek (Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh); Castilleja Olmsted (Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh)
Associate Professor
University of Scranton
OER Development Grant
Introduction to Statistics, and Introduction to Data Science
The scope of this project is to develop OER materials for DS 201 Introduction to Data Science which is part of the Data Science Concentration and the concentration in Integrated Data Analysis and MATH 204 Introduction to Statistics which is part of the concentration in Integrated Data Analysis at the University of Scranton.
Team members: Joseph Klobusicky, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Scranton
Director of Teaching and Learning
Reading Area Community College
Course Development
Introduction to Business; Sociology
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: Ahn (Emmie) Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Business; Danelle Bower, PhD, Professor of Social Sciences
Temple University
OER Development Grant
Gratis!: A Flipped-Classroom and Active Learning Approach to Italian Italian 1001 and 1002
Our project will create interactive exercises and multimedia content that will be an integral part of the open textbook Gratis!: A Flipped-Classroom and Active Learning Approach to Italian by Carmelo A. Galati, Associate Professor of Italian at Temple University. The book will be published using the open source publishing platform Manifold by North Broad Press, a joint open access imprint of Temple University Libraries and Temple University Press.
Team members: Carmelo A. Galati, Associate Professor of Italian
Associate Dean of eLearning and Information Literacy
Lackawanna College
Course Development
American Government
This project will result in the redesign of Lackawanna College’s American Government course for the benefit of students. The redesign will replace a commercial textbook currently used for several sections of the course with OER materials that are cost-free to students.
Team members: Susan Gilroy-King, Humanities Instructor, Lackawanna College
Associate Dean of eLearning and Information Literacy
Lackawanna College
Course Development
Helping Skills
This project will result in the redesign of Lackawanna College’s Helping Skills course for the benefit of students. The redesign will replace the commercial textbook that is currently being used for the course with OER materials that are cost-free to students.
Team members: Nicole Ciali-Bradigan, BSW, MS, Social Science Division Chair, Assistant Professor and Advisor, Lackawanna College
Associate Dean of eLearning and Information Literacy
Lackawanna College
Course Development
Business Law I
This project will result in the redesign of Lackawanna College’s Business Law I course for the benefit of students. The redesign will replace the commercial textbook that is currently being used for the course with OER materials that are cost-free to students.
Team members: Julianne Cote, MBA, Business Instructor, Lackawanna College
Associate Dean of eLearning and Information Literacy
Lackawanna College
Course Development
Introduction to Psychology
This project will result in the redesign of Lackawanna College’s Introduction to Psychology course for the benefit of students. The redesign will replace the commercial textbook that is currently being used for the course with OER materials that are cost-free to students.
Team members: Joseph Cice, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Human Services, Lackawanna College
Temple University
Library Licensed Materials
Lebanon Valley College
OER Development
Librarian
University of Valley Forge
Library Licensed Materials Grant
Additional database subscriptions to eBook collections will provide course materials for multiple departments and majors. These materials will give students the option to use free materials in place of traditionally purchased materials. Faculty will also be investigating to see if any more materials in these new collections can be used in place of current selections.
Collections and Resource Management Librarian
University of Scranton
Library Licensed Materials Grant
First Year Seminars
Grant funds will be used to purchase library licensed materials to be support current first year seminars. These titles are used by multiple instructors across disciplines to help familiarize first year students with the University's Catholic and Jesuit mission.
Team members: Kelly Banyas, Assistant Professor and Research and Instruction Librarian for Student Success
Sheli Pratt-McHugh, Associate Professor, Research and Instruction Librarian for Technology and Outreach, and Chair of the Library. Teresa Grettano, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of First Year Seminar, Department of English and Theatre Darlene Miller-Lanning, PhD, Gallery Director and part time instructor, Department of History William Miller, PhD, Faculty Specialist, Department of Health Administration and Human Resources
Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations and Reference & Instruction Librarian
Penn State Abington
OER Development Grant
ENGL 221W: British Literature to 1798 and ENGL455: Topics in British Literature
This project is to fully implement a Spring 2021 pilot of an open pedagogy assignment in these courses in order to develop a student-created open scholarly edition tentatively called Transatlantic Literature in Premodern Worlds. The grant would fund revising the syllabus around a project-based open pedagogical assignment which diversifies the literature content and develops student as authors of contextual content such as introductory headings, footnotes, and contextual images and maps.
Team members: Marissa Nicosia, Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature, Penn State Abington
Professor African History
Kutztown University
OER Development Grant
UFAHAMU: An Introduction to Africana Studies
Ufahamu: An Introduction to Africana Studies is a project designed as a first-of-its-kind Open Educational Resource (OER) for implementation primarily at the post-secondary level, Africana studies, which includes topics broadly related to Africa
Team members: Dr. Troy Spier, Professor of English and Linguistics at Universidad San Francisco de Quito and Dr. Brenda Muzeta, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at Kutztown University,
Assistant Professor
Community College of Philadelphia
Course Development
Intellectual Property
Course Syllabus, Reading List, Activities, Resources
Head of Technical Services
Saint Francis University
OER Development Grant
Accounting 1 and 2
To develop Accounting test banks to be used in lieu of expensive access codes that are currently being used
Team members: Briana Keith, Randy Frye
Assistant Professor of English
Community College of Philadelphia
Course Development
ENGL 101: English Composition I
ENGL 101 is a first-year writing course required for nearly all college students. I am converting my online ENGL 101 into a zero-cost course using open-access and OER materials. This project entails a total course redesign since all learning modules, discussions, assignments, and activities depend on materials in a textbook.
Information Literacy Librarian
Messiah University
Library Licensed Materials Grant
Introduction to Athletic Training, Kinesiology, Chronic Disease and Exercise, Prevention and Management of Injury, Orthopedic Assessment, Therapeutic Interventions, Gross Anatomy, Senior Seminar
This project expands access to physiotherapy and athletic training database resources to allow our hybrid undergraduate/graduate athletic training program to selected textbooks at no extra costs to students, saving substantial student textbook costs.
Associate Professor of English
Delaware County Community College
Course Development
REA 030: Developmental Reading I, REA 050: Developmental Reading II, REA 075 Integrated Reading and Writing
Our project goal is to redesign developmental reading courses around our OER Cycle 1 guidebook: Cultivating English Language Learning. The redesign will result in instructional materials such as a course syllabus, videos, student activities, and other content that can be integrated into a range of developmental reading courses.
Team members: Kathy Hastings, Ed. D. Literacy Professor, Delaware County Community College and Villanova University
Health Sciences & Nursing Libarian
DeSales University
OER Development Grant
BI252: Microbiology Generate open auxiliary educational resources for the OpenStax Microbiology textbook we are currently using.
Team members: Lafayette College, Moravian University Dr. Dia Beachboard professor of Microbiology at DeSales University; Mr. Jim Holton Director of the Instructional Design and Technology at DeSales University; Dr. Laurie Caslake Biology Department head and professor of Microbiology at Lafayette College; Dr. Kara Mosovsky professor of Biology at Moravian University