Open Education Resources at UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst Libraries Open Educational Resources Site
OEI Staff
Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Open Education Initiative is a faculty incentive program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that encourages the use of existing low-cost or free information resources to support our students’ learning.
Name | Department | Proposed Project | Date | Semester |
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Allen Barker | Stockbridge School of Agriculture | Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences 530: Plant Nutrition | 2012 | Fall |
Ashley Woodman | Sociology | Create original open education textbook for an Impact of Disabilities on Families course. | 2017 | Spring |
Barbara Roche | Japanese Language & Literature | Journalism 397: Entreprenurial Journalism | 2012 | Fall |
Bogdan Prokopovych | Management | Identify less technical articles available through library journals, and chapters of selected books. Identify alternative to Harvard Business School Publishing platform. | 2015 | Fall |
Briankle Chang | Communication | Communication 318: Comparative Communication Theory | 2013 | Spring |
Briankle Chang | Communication | Communication 491: Introduction to Semiotics | 2012 | Fall |
Briankle Chang | Communication | Communication 794: Seminar on Cultural Studies | TBA | |
Brokk Toggerson | Physics | Organize existing free resources in a central location to improve navigation for students and use Perusall, a new reading enhancement tool. | 2016 | Spring |
Carlos Gradil | Sustainable Horticulture | Animal Sciences 421: Fundamentals of Reproduction | 2012 | Fall |
Charlie Schweik | Environmental Conservation | Natural Resource Conservation 409: Natural resource Policy and Administration | 2012 | Spring |
Charlie Schweik | Environmental Conservation | Natural Resource Conservation 592: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 2011 | Fall |
Christine Hatch | Geosciences | Geoscience-Natural Resource Conservation 297RL: Reading the Landscape | TBA | |
D. Joseph Jerry | Veterinary & Animal Sciences | Collaborate with colleagues in the field to create a downloadable free textbook from lecture materials. | 2015 | Fall |
Daiheng Ni | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Civil & Environmental Engineering 520: Traffic Flow Theory | 2013 | Spring |
Daniel Wang | Astronomy | Evaluate existing available open textbooks and modify them. Revise lecture slides, quizzes, homework, reading assignments, and exams. | 2016 | Spring |
Elizabeth Chilton | Anthropology | Anthropology 396: North American Anthropology | 2012 | Summer |
Evan Ross | Public Policy & Administration | Create a social enterprise network textbook using the Pressbooks web publishing software and use free online resources such as the BBC and Solutions Journalism Network. | 2017 | Spring |
Graciela Monteagudo | Sociology | Create original open source Introduction to Radical Social Theory textbook using the Pressbooks web publishing software. | 2017 | Spring |
H.K. Hsieh | Management | Statistics 501: Methods of Applied Statistics | 2012 | Fall |
Jeffrey Starns | Psychology | Turn course slides into a stand alone textbook. | 2015 | Fall |
Jerimiah Bentley | Accounting | Find/develop reading material needed to supplement free eBook and create a large bank of practice problems on Blackboard to replace existing elearning software. | 2017 | Spring |
John Brigham | Political Science | Replace textbook with free Government material from Supreme Court website, Wikipedia, Oyez, Library of Congress and National Constitution Center | 2016 | Spring |
John Gerber | Stockbridge School of Agriculture | Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences 290U: Urban Agriculture: Innovative Farm Systems | 2012 | Summer |
Jonathan Wynn | Sociology | Identify open textbooks and develop a digital archive where materials can be housed online. | 2016 | Spring |
Julia Choi | Kinesiology | Compile chapters from multiple textbooks & store on content management system. | 2015 | TBA |
UMass Amherst Libraries Open Educational Resources Site
Marilyn Billings
Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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