Total savings from the usage of OER at EU - from Fall 2017 to present:
$782,781.00 USD
Note: The calculated savings are based on the retail price of a bound print new textbook taken from the publishers' websites.
Last updated: February 27, 2024.
Deborah M. Gill, PhD, Professor Emerita of Bible and Theology
and her graduate seminary students have created the first two openly licensed online textbooks published by the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS):
Women in Ministry & Leadership: An Anthology
The textbooks have been published and are freely available on the Open Educational Resources Commons (OERC) website.
Martin Mittelstadt, PhD, Professor of New Testament
Uses Pentecostalism in America by Roger Robins in electronic format from the EU Libraries' eBooks collection.
Course: THEO 434: Pentecostal Foundations. So far he has saved his students an estimated amount of 768.00 dollars.
Dr. Deborah Johnson, Professor of Psychology, Department Chair
Uses Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International H5P Edition by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and Dr. Hammond Tarry., 2022.
Course: PSYC 223 Social Psychology. Saved dollars to her students: $2030.00
Uses Introduction to Biological Psychology by Dr. Catherine N. Hall, First Edition, 2023.
Course: PSYC 351 Physiological Psychology. Saved dollars to her students: $1190.00
Dr. Johnson has saved her students cumulatively around 3220.00 dollars so far.
Dr. Heather L. Kelly, Professor of Psychology
Uses Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 8th edition
Course: BEHV 210: Introduction to Statistics, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, BEHA210: Online Statistics. Dr. Kelly has saved her students around 15,860.00 dollars so far.
Angela Reid, Psychology Instructor
Uses Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International H5P Edition by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and Dr. Hammond Tarry, 2022.
Course: PSY A 223 Social Psychology. She has saved her students around 980.00 dollars so far.
E. J. Arnold, American Government and History Instructor
Uses OpenStax - American Government, 3e., July 2023 in GOVT 170 - Introduction to American Government. He has saved his students 6083.00 dollars so far.
Dr. Mark Kinney, Missionary-in-Residence
Uses Discovering Cultural Anthropology by Antonia Santangelo, an open textbook published by PressBooks, October 2022. Last updated: February 5, 2024, with interactive assignments (H5P activities).
Course: ICST 471, ANTH 470, SOCI 493 Enculturation and Spiritual Development Across Cultures. So far Dr. Kinney has saved his students 2340.00 dollars.
Lindsey Wray, Adjunct faculty
Uses OpenStax - Introduction to Sociology, 3e., June 2023, in SOCI 111- Introduction to Sociology. She has saved her students 3,744.00 dollars so far.
Kevin Holle, M.S., Criminal Justice Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor
Uses OpenStax - Introduction to Sociology, 2e. in SOCI 111-Introduction to Sociology
Bridger Falkenstein, Adjunct Professor
Uses OpenStax - Introduction to Sociology, 2e. in SOCI111: Introduction to Sociology course.
Both of them have saved their students 3,705.00 dollars so far.
Preston Kness, Adjunct Professor of History
Uses a wide variety of open educational resources (OER) in the following courses:
HIST463 Special Topics: Navigating China; Navigating Islam; Navigating Latin America
Stephen Houseknecht, Assistant Professor of History
Uses a variety of open educational resources (OER) such as Avalon Project from Yale University - a repository for primary documents in law, history, and diplomacy for his History classes.
Dr. Eveline Lewis, Associate Professor of Business
Uses Business Plan Development Guide, published by OpenPress.USASK.CA. This textbook "was designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it." Course: MRKT 331: Marketing
Uses OpenStax - Principles of Macroeconomics, 2 e. in summer and fall online courses ECON 212: Principles of Macroeconomics. She has saved her students around 1000.00 dollars.
Melinda Jamison-Shiels, Assistant Professor
Uses Principles of Marketing from Open Textbook Library in MRKT 239: Principles of Marketing course.
She has also adopted Entrepreneurship from OpenStax for MRKT 331: Entrepreneurship. So far she has saved her students a total of 5,598.00 dollars.
Tashina Kent, Adjunct faculty
Uses OpenStax - Organizational Behavior in MGTA 349: Human Behavior in Organizations. So far she has saved her students 3,610.00 dollars.
Lauren Rudolph, MS, Adjunct Professor of Biology
Uses OpenStax - Concepts of Biology in online BIOL101 courses.
Kevin King, PhD, Associate Professor - EU Champion of OER!
Uses The Lift Project, a free online educational program for his course "Wellness Proficiency."
Course: EXER 101. Since the launch of the course in Fall 2020 he has saved his students around $186,000.00 so far.
Nicholas Hestand, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Uses OpenStax - Chemistry: Atoms First. 2e., "a peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory textbook produced through a collaborative publishing partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association."
Courses: CHEM111 and CHEM112. So far he has saved his students around 48,420.00 dollars.
Dianne Twigger, M.S., Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Uses OpenStax - Calculus v.1 - "Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. Volume 1 covers functions, limits, derivatives, and integration."
Course: MATH231
Uses OpenStax - Calculus v.2 - "Volume 2 covers integration, differential equations, sequences and series, and parametric equations and polar coordinates."
Course: MATH232
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Uses Lumen Learning - affordable, simple-to-adapt OER course materials, which provide high quality, interactive learning content, online homework, and personalized feedback to help students study and learn more effectively.
Dianne has created her own customized resource based on the Lumen Online Homework Manager (OHM) materials for MATH210 Online Course. So far, she has saved her students in this course a total of 26,991.00 dollars.
Julie Mayne, M.S., Assistant Professor of Biology
Uses OpenStax - Concepts of Biology, "designed for the typical introductory biology course for non-majors. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy."
Course: BIOL101. Professor Mayne has saved her students 14,980.00 dollars.
Joseph Williams, PhD, Professor of Chemistry
Uses OpenStax - Organic Chemistry by John McMurry, 10th edition.
Course: CHEM271 LEC1 Organic Chemistry I. Professor Williams has saved his students so far 4,524.00 dollars
Michael Tenneson, PhD, Professor of Biology
Uses A Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology, openly licensed textbook written by Keene State College Students, 2019.
Course: BIOL341: Marine Biology. He has saved his students 816.00 dollars.
Dr. Don Tosh, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Uses An Introduction to Statistical Learning, 2nd ed., 2021 - This textbook "provides a broad and less technical treatment of key topics in statistical learning. Each chapter includes an R lab. It is appropriate for anyone who wishes to use contemporary tools for data analysis. The book has been translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian and Vietnamese."
Course: MATH448-2: Data Science. Dr. Tosh has saved his students an estimated amount of 770.00 dollars.
Michael Buesking, Associate Professor of Art
Uses a variety of open educational resources (OER), including Smarthistory, which makes the history of art accessible and engaging to more people, in more places, than any other publisher, and THE ART STORY.
ART102: Art History I Survey; ART103: Art History; ART330: History of Modern Art
So far he has saved his students around 16,722 dollars.
Dara Brannan, Assistant Professor of English, The Write Place Director
Uses Successful Writing in ENGL111-3
Nathan H. Nelson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of English
Uses a variety of open educational resources (OER):
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds, Ed. by Guston, Finn, and Robert in
ENGL212: Composition and Literary Analysis; ENGL302: English Literature Survey II. He has saved his students around 240.00 dollars.
The Internet Archive - "a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more."
Courses in which this resource is used: ENGL212: Composition & Literary Analysis; ENGA455: Contemporary Literature for Helping Professions; ENGA 455: Contemporary Literature and the Environment.
Introductory Guide to Critical Theory -> Introduction to Psychoanalysis - a scholarly website at Purdue University
Courses in which this resource is used: ENGL212: Composition & Literary Analysis and ENGL497 - Senior Seminar.
Romantic Circles - a refereed scholarly website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture, published by University of Colorado Boulder, used in ENGL212: Composition & Literary Analysis.
Voice of the Shuttle - a humanities scholarly website created at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, used in British Literature courses.
Vickie Wisdom, Professor of Theatre
Uses a variety of open access materials as assignments and supplemental materials in her course THTR 341: Costume Design.
