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List of Kish courses using OERs, data and statistical reports, and OERs published by Kish Faculty

Textbook Affordability Efforts at Kishwaukee College

  • Faculty Focus Groups 
    Faculty were invited to participate in conversations regarding textbook affordability to help understand their successes and challenges as it relates to finding affordable options for their courses. Feedback from faculty was shared with college leaders to help support future affordability efforts. 

  • Specific course textbook evaluations
    With support from the academic leaders, specific faculty and departments agreed to take a comprehensive review of textbook options for their courses, focusing on finding materials that best fit their objectives and are affordable for students. Course participating for the 2023-2024 academic year are: 

    • COM 100 

    • EST 100, 110, and 110 

    • ENG 103 

    • OS 101 

  • OER
    Faculty are regularly exploring OER options. We have support systems in place to help faculty learn about, locate, evaluate, remix, and create OER. Faculty may receive a stipend for OER work. A bootcamp workshop for faculty will be held in June 2023.

What are E-Reserves?

E-reserves are electronic versions of course-related materials that the Library makes available to students through Brightspace D2L and customized Research Guides. The Library will automatically provide links to eResources, such as OERs, included in the textbook adoption list. Instructors can notify Library Staff of additional eResources to be added upon request. For those currently linking to articles in their D2L courses, it is recommended you ask the Library to place these articles in E-Reserves. Articles and resources from the EBSCOhost and other resource databases can be included in E-Reserves. Additionally, eBooks, videos, or other electronic documents from the Library’s collection can be put on E-Reserve. The benefit of this is to comply with copyright and ensure that your students can access the reading material from our subscription databases. See the Library's A-Z Database List to access our resources.