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The CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and students each semester. The Affordable Learning Solutions website is designed to: - Make it easy for faculty, staff, and students to find no/low cost course content that can substitute for more costly textbooks Enable faculty to be recognized for their efforts in reducing costs for students - Share practices for using no/low cost digital content in CSU courses - Support campuses in customizing their strategies to enable affordable learning solutions For example: As part of a three-year partnership with Nature Publishing Group (NPG), publisher of the world's leading scientific journal Nature, CSU faculty guided and advised the development of NPG's Principles of Biology - the first in a series of interactive "born digital" textbooks. The text will be incorporated into courses for students at the Los Angeles, Northridge and Chico campuses starting in the 2011/2012 academic year.

4 Steps that Chris Rice also uses in his EADs at UK: Meet (are we listening? reach out to students to understand their learning preferences and motivations for taking a course) Show (did we do it? develop learning solutions based on today's students and validate through interative process to ensure ideal product mix) Test (do you like it? gain faculty approval to finalize the product and content mix specific to each discipline) Work (are you in? publish the student-tested, faculty-approved teaching and learning solution) Rest (are you kidding? our research never ends, continual feedback from students ensures that we keep up with their changing needs)

Universal design principles are critical to raising standards in faculty-designed learning experiences. When/how do we get awareness and then exploring best types of faculty (and grad students) development learning experiences?

How-to for faculty to develop their own open courseware strategy, including benefits (global, institutional, personal/professional).

Social networking to prioritize curriculum development from open content and chosen by community (student generated content such as notes and internet-based resources while instructor-based content can be course notes), and new groups of students/faculty can build on the work oand experiences of previous students ("start where others left off") - instructors can use learner analytics to encourage deeper learning - currently being used for English composition by Stanford, CA Polytech, USC, Babson, Sacramento State and San Luis Obispo

This study will investigate the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) use on teaching and learning. To achieve this, the project team will review current research in the area; survey, interview and run workshops with suitable participants to collect data; and will produce an accessible report on the study findings. The report will consider the use of OER from both an individual and institutional perspective looking at the benefits OER can offer each and identifying the pedagogic, attitudinal, logistical and strategic factors conducive to uptake and sustained use of OER, as well as the associated issues and challenges.