DuWayne Battle, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Introduction to Social Work and Social Services
This project will offer journal articles, library e-reserves, and social media content for a completely online course, enabling more relevant and timely discussions about the state of social work.
Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
250 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $37,500.00
Sara Plummer, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Groups at Risk
This course is taught in-person and online. This project will replace the current texts for the in-person course with journal articles, library e-resources, and social media content; and it will offer journal articles, library e-reserves and social media content for a completely online course. This approach will allow the course to accommodate the timeliness of the topics discussed by using current and updated material that a traditional text cannot capture.
Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2019
200 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $50,000.00
Rutgers University–Camden | Projected Savings: $123,855.00
Selim Cakmakli, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Microeconomic Principles and Macroeconomic Principles
This project will develop open lecture notes and write all teaching materials, including the main text, case examples, summary, test-yourself, and discussion questions. Case examples will be drawn from publicly available news, reports, and current studies about microeconomic/macroeconomic issues. These lecture notes will be uploaded to the Sakai learning management system where students will have free access to all materials.
Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2018
150 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $13,500.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Kate Durbin, Digital Studies Fellow & Lecturer, Digital Studies Center
Underground Lovers: Electronic Literature and Performance
This project will develop materials for a new online course in which students will read scholarship about and works from the fields of electronic literature and digital performance art. The award will be used to create reading material that is open source and available either online or through the library’s databases.
Taught: Spring 2018
20 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $1,200.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Michael Hayes, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Camden, Department of Public Policy and Administration
Financial Management for Public Program
This project will replace the current textbook with a recently published open-source textbook. In addition, the project will involve the writing of “how to do” documents as supplementary material.
Taught: Spring 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2019
60 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $8,280.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Haydee Herrera-Guzman, Associate Professor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics
Mathematics Reasoning and Proofs
This project will replace a traditional textbook with a free online textbook, as well as other resources that are comparable to the textbooks usually studied in this kind of more advanced mathematics courses.
Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
75 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $2,250.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Kimberlee Moran, Associate Professor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry
Forensic Science Methods & Techniques
This project will replace the current textbook and scanned articles with a comprehensive digital class manual containing library e-resources, self-developed materials, websites, and instructional videos. Assigned readings on the topic of the week are a vital component of the course; and this project will also produce the necessary readings, free to students, utilizing multiple media platforms. Of particular interest is to develop short (2–3 minute), modular videos that demonstrate a particular method or concept.
Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2019
80 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $18,550.00
Dana Pilla, Assistant Professor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of World Languages and Cultures
Spanish for the Health Professions
This project will replace the current online interactive textbook and workbook with Spanish language materials, an inexpensive e-book, and online interactive activities created by the professor. The affordable materials for this course will be curated from Rutgers University Libraries databases available in Spanish; Camden County Library databases available in Spanish; an inexpensive Medical Spanish e-book published by McGraw Hill; and YouTube videos in Spanish from reputable medical resources, such as Red Cross and CDC.
Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019
150 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $36,450.00
Jeffrey Podoshen, Part-Time Lecturer, Rutgers School of Business, Camden
Digital Marketing Strategy
This is a new course being offered for the first time in the Focused Learning Modules sequence for the MBA program. OER materials will be used as the primary textbooks and the chief "lab" and project-oriented assignments. The course will also use current academic articles available to students as full-text documents in Business Source Premier via Rutgers University Libraries.
Taught: Spring 2018, Spring 2019
70 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $21,070.00
Nancy Pontes, Assistant Professor, Camden School of Nursing
Community Health Nursing/Global Health (THEORY)
Population health and global health information frequently changes and updates, so textbooks quickly go out of date. This project will provide the most up-to-date information by replacing the traditional textbook with original materials that are available in digital format online or as PDFs. The learning management system will be used to increase access to materials and to digital formats that increase interactive learning.
Taught: Spring 2019
40 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $3,200.00
Cyril Reade, Associate Professor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Fine Arts
LGBTQ and Popular Culture
This course uses movies, popular music, graphic novels, photography, painting, poetry, novels as well as television to survey LGBTQ representation. Materials for this class will be provided online free for students.
Taught: Fall 2019
20 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $2,400.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Jillian Sayre, Assistant Professor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English
American Horror Story
This course is being revised to broaden its impact on campus. The course content will be redesigned in favor of shorter and more accessible texts, paired with secondary resources. The course will also make use of the streaming services available through Rutgers University Libraries in order to limit the need for students to purchase copies of films and television shows.
Taught: Fall 2018
25 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $1,975.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Shauna Shames, Assistant Professor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
Introduction to Politics
This project will restructure a foundational political science course to use open source, library, and other OER materials. The course will be redesigned with an "original materials" approach, using materials as much as possible that are already in the public domain (for example, the original writings of the U.S. Constitution Framers, other older writings, or the constitutions of various modern countries) and low-cost materials accessible through Rutgers University Libraries, such as journal articles.
Taught: Summer 2018, Spring 2019
20 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $3,320.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
Cameron Whitley, Program Coordinator, New Student Office
Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
The goal of this project is to transition the course from a traditional textbook-based experience to a course that uses free sources from Rutgers University Libraries that are 100% accessible to all students.
Taught: Fall 2018, Spring 2019
60 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $7,620.00
Emily Wood, Instructor, Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology
Special Topics in Psychology, Psychology of Religion
This project will use open source material and journal articles to replace the need for a textbook in this class. The entire class reading material will be made up of OER and journal articles from journals to which Rutgers University Libraries already subscribe.
Taught: Spring 2018, Fall 2018
40 students impacted per year | Projected savings per year: $4,040.00
**Funded by Camden College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University–Camden
