Plays:
Sustaining Change & Impact
Use the plays below to put measures in place to make your initiative viable and successful going forward.
Making S.P.A.C.E. for Student Belonging: 5 Tips for Increasing Faculty and Staff Awareness and Agency
Foreword Lumen Circles are asynchronous faculty professional development experiences that use virtual learning communities to connect faculty with peers, helping them refine their expertise as student-centered educators. Grounded in evidence-based [...]
Lumen Learning and Rockland Community College Create First Student Testing Center to Address Equity Gaps
This fall Lumen Learning is launching its first campus-based user testing center at Rockland Community College with a goal to increase the effectiveness and cultural relevance of Lumen’s solutions for [...]
SELF-FUNDING INITIATIVE*
Use this play to: Launch and sustain an OER program without significant grant or government funding. Note: Asterisk denotes this is a proven, high-impact play. [...]
DEVELOP OER POLICY*
Use this play to: Develop a policy framework to support broadening use of OER at your institution. Identify where and how institutional policy can reinforce and sustain [...]
BOOKSTORE FUNDING & PAYMENT*
Use this play to: Students use the familiar bookstore purchasing process to pay for printed materials, platform or other support fees associated with reliable, effective OER. [...]
INSTITUTION-ALLOCATED BUDGET*
Use this play to: Sustain ongoing support for OER adoption by allocating institutional budget from existing budget sources (e.g. technology fee, etc). Note: Asterisk denotes this [...]
COURSE MATERIALS FEE*
Use this play to: Sustain and expand OER initiatives by adding a low-cost OER course fee to cover courseware and other program support costs. Note: Asterisk [...]
FORGE PARTNERSHIPS*
Use this play to: Develop partnerships with outside entities to increase your capacity, support faculty success with OER, and help you achieve your goals. Note: Asterisk [...]
GRANT FUNDING
Use this play to: Seek grant funding to support broadening use of OER to impact affordability, access, and improved student outcomes. See More Plays [...]
MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES
Use this play to: Establish a team to encourage collaboration and provide support services for scaling OER adoption across multiple institutions or an entire system. [...]
Questions we’re answering:
- Why is sustainability an unusually important topic for OER?
- What needs to be sustained?
- Who do we need to engage in the conversation?
- What sustainability approach(es) can work for us?
- What isn’t going to work?