Research Guides: Affordable Learning Materials Initiative (ALMI): Faculty Champions!

**ALMI Faculty Participants**
Stipend Awardees	Non-Stipend Participants	Ebook and/or OER Adopters	OER Creators
I. Lovitch	Dr. M. Kidd	I. Lovitch	Nancy Ballesteros
Dr. W. McCredie	Dr. L. Fahey	Dr. L. Fahey	S. Gamson
Dr. M. French	I. Lovitch	D. Weaver	V. Grajeda
Dr. M. Kidd		Dr. P. Tan	M. Carsillo
Dr. M. Nickerson		Dr. P. Gist	M. Carranza Fonseca
S. Gamson		Dr. D. Rojo
V. Grajeda
M. Carsillo
M. Carranza Fonseca

Stipend Awardees worked with the Library and Instructional Designers to develop low / no cost class readings.

Non-Stipend Participants adopted open textbooks or encouraged students to borrow library owned print and ebooks for their courses.

Ebook or OER adopters found electronic books or open education textbooks (in the Open Textbook Network) to replace costly textbooks.

Some suggestions for making your course materials equitable and affordable:

Adopt an Open Stax (or other open access) textbook and integrate it into Canvas
Adopt and Remix a Libretext book and integrate it into Canvas
Adopt eBooks and eArticles in the Libraries' collection and integrate them into Canvas
Develop a private course guide with resources that can be shared with students
Develop a public course guide with links to library materials and open access copies or library-purchased e-copies of class readings

Add LibreText Collection to Canvas
How to upload LibreText material to Canvas LMS. Created and shared by Nancy Ballesteros.
An interview with ALMI recipient, Wendy McCredie
Check out this brief interview with Wendy McCredie as she shares her experiences with choosing and using affordable learning materials with her ENG145 students!
Advice from and Q&A with Online Teaching Experts
Watch this recording from the March 19, 2020 Open Stax sponsored webinar on teaching online with OpenStax and Canvas LMS. Featuring our own ALMI stipend recipient, Ira Lovitch (@ 15:42). OpenStax has a wide array of free community-curated teaching resources on their blog.
About OpenStax Entrepreneurship
A discussion about the practical aspects of using the OpenStax Entrepreneurship book with Canvas. Insights provided by ALMI-stipend awardee, Ira Lovitch (beginning at 28:01) Check it out even if you're not Business faculty as OpenStax and the Open Textbook Library have textbooks on many different subjects. Register with your name/email address to view the recorded presentation.

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