Sacred Heart University Uses DEF Grant to Promote Free Ed Resources for Students

"Sacred Heart University has received a $2,500 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to establish a faculty fellowship in open educational resources (OER) for the 2018-19 academic year. Open educational resources constitute free digital assets such as online research repositories, curriculum-sharing websites and freely accessible, online alternatives to textbooks. Frank Robinson, assistant professor of physics and director of SHU’s Engineering 3+2 program, will fill the fellowship, devoting time to supporting the colleges, departments, programs and individual faculty in creation and integration of OER into courses. He also will work with librarians to identify existing quality OER alternatives to course materials and offer a series of workshops on the importance of the OER initiative as it relates to equity and affordability for students. ..."