As our OE Week ’24 coverage continues, let’s take a look at Touro’s OER Faculty Fellowship!
The Library’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Faculty Fellowship helps guide faculty through the process of selecting, adapting, or creating OER for use in their classes, instead of using expensive commercial textbooks. This fellowship has been the primary driver of OER use at Touro University for the past three years.
In January, we officially closed the book on our 2023 fellowship. This was an exciting year for the fellowship, as we had 9 faculty fellows, our largest cohort yet! This cohort includes faculty from Touro University New York’s undergraduate and graduate programs, Touro Law Center, Touro University Nevada, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, and Touro’s Physician Assistant program. Their completed OER projects will all be published on Touro Scholar’s Open Touro-created resources page.
Congratulations to the 9 OER Fellows from 2023 for completing the 6-month fellowship and developing OER for use in their classes!
Meet our 2023 cohort of OER Faculty Fellows below:
Gena Bardwell, MFA & David Nussbaum MA, Speech and Communication, Touro University NY, NYSCAS.
OER Project: Exploring Human Communication: at School, at Work and at Home.
Michelle Buccinna, OTD, OTR/L, Occupational Therapy MS, Touro University NY, School of Health Sciences.
OER Project: Lab manual for OTHN 334 Human Movement, Behavior, and Occupation.
Regina Burch, AB, MSA, JD, Touro Law Center.
OER Project: Navigating Business Organizations: Cases, Statutes, and Practice for Law Students.
Stephanie Klinesmith, MS, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, Middletown.
OER Project: A Clinical Reference for Neuroanatomy.
Jacqueline Randa, PT, DPT, PhD, NCS, OCS, School of Physical Therapy, Touro University Nevada.
OER Project: Evidence-Based Practice 1: An Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics.
Deborah Ratti, PhD, Sociology, Touro University NY, NYSCAS.
OER Project: Introduction to Sociology.
Tom Rozinski, JD, MA, Political Science, Touro University NY.
OER Project: Readings in American Political Theory.
James Van Rhee, MS, PA-C, Physician Assistant Program, Touro University.
OER Project: Knowledge Integration for Clinical Practice I.
To learn more about OER at Touro or to get involved, please contact OER Librarian, Kirk Snyder.
This post contributed by Kirk Snyder, OER & Instruction Librarian,
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