The OER Reading List Academy is a professional development opportunity that provides participating faculty with a $500 stipend and gives participating faculty the tools to reduce the cost of required course materials to their students through the use of the library's "Reading List" platform, library licensed resources and open educational resources (OER).
All OER Reading List Academy participants will: 
17 faculty members registered for the Academy in Spring 2024 and 16 participated in some portion of the academy. 14 of those faculty members completed the academy by consulting with their subject librarian and creating a reading lists for an upcoming class.
As a result of the academy, 13 faculty members used the library reading lists for the first and and created 18 of the top 35 most active reading lists during the summer and fall semesters. This translates to 314 more students in the fall 2024 semester (more than half of all active students in Leganto) that are able to access at least one course material online this semester because these faculty members took on the task!
These students accessing their course materials through reading lists are also saving money- almost $50K so far in the Fall 2024 semester. If you are an instructor and want to harness the power of OER and library licensed materials to save your students money, reach out to the library to find out more.
This graph shows the savings (based on an assumption that each student that uses the online reading lists is saving $70 per class on textbooks) realized by students that actually use the library reading lists. If every student in every class that has course materials in a reading list used the free materials instead of buying a textbook, the savings would be three times as much!
