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Who Uses OER at IU East? — Open Education Week 2023

Elizabeth South, faculty, oer, Open Education Resources, textbooks February 27, 2023 Website mdilwort

Due to the rising costs of higher education, textbook affordability is a particular area of hardship for many students. With limited funding, students may have to choose what is essential to their well-being and education and because of this, many students forgo buying required textbooks or other course material. This often results in poor grades or failing or dropping out of the course (Yano & Myers, 2019). To combat this issue, Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives have been growing among many higher education institutions, including Indiana University East. In support of Open Education Week (March 6-10th) 2023, the Campus Library is highlighting IU East faculty who currently use OER textbooks and resources in their classes. Humanities and Social Sciences … Continued

Faculty resources at the library

faculty, KT Lowe, Research January 9, 2023 Library Resources, Research mdilwort

The IU East Campus Library supports the entire IU East community – students, staff and faculty. While many of the library’s resources focus on topics of broad interest to everyone on campus, they also include materials specifically for faculty. Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) is a weekly publication founded in 1966 and dedicated to keeping college educators up to date on the latest trends in the field. The library subscription includes the ability to peruse current and previous articles as far back as 1988, plus access to the job board. As a frontline resource for academics and educators, CHE is well respected for its in-depth coverage of issues that matter like retention, burnout and academic … Continued

A sneak peek at the Mary Fell collection

faculty, KT Lowe, memorial, poetry August 9, 2021 books mdilwort

IU East was lucky enough to enjoy the teaching expertise of award winning poet Mary Fell for over 30 years. Earlier this year, she donated a number of books, documents and ephemera to the IU East Campus Archives. And today, we’ll take a brief look at some of the treasures we’ve seen so far. Let’s go! Class planning materials A working writer relies on a number of tools to complete their work. Whether it’s the perfectly balanced pen, the elegantly laid cream wove paper or the delicious cup of coffee in the best coffee mug, each writer assembles their tools to begin the day’s task of crafting words. Mary consulted a number of books related to poetry in order to … Continued

Your opportunity to share! Scholarly Communications and the IUScholarWorks-East Collection

faculty, scholarworks July 29, 2019 Research, Sue McFadden mdilwort

Faculty Scholarship Celebration Collection Calling all IU East students and faculty! We want to help disseminate your research and creative work. One tool is IUScholarWorks (IUSW), the Indiana University Libraries Institutional Repository (IR) that archives and provides online access to scholarly communication objects. Presentation by Dr. Brian Brodeur, Assistant Professor, English Presentation by Katherine A. Miller Wolf, PhD, RPA Also available is the IUSW-East Collection (IUSW-E). This provides space for a variety of materials created by faculty and students. These materials vary from research to service, and include teaching resources. The materials/objects provided online are a digital record of the original. The form stored is generally a PDF, although other file types may be stored or linked. Presentation by Carrie … Continued

IU East Faculty Publications

faculty, writing May 16, 2016 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

IU East is proud of its faculty and their accomplishments. A display of many faculty writings, both books and articles, is being showcased at the library to celebrate these achievements. Come in and see how much your professors have done – or read some of their work! IU East professors publish in every major discipline. Some of their books include Quick Hits for Service-Learning: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers by Ange Cooksey, Anger Management in Schools: Alternatives to Student Violence by Jerry Wilde, Vikings Across the Atlantic: Emigration and the Building of a Greater Norway, 1860-1945 by Daron Olson, Social Justice, Poverty and Race by Paul Kriese, and Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel … Continued