Customizing Your Workshop
Nothing will connect your faculty to the urgency and importance of these issues than stories and data that reflect your community. Here, you will find recommendations for localizing your own faculty workshop deck to use in presentations or conversations on your campus. Remember, all of the OEN's materials are CC-BY, so you are welcome to make these changes as long as you include attribution.
How To:
Please make a copy of the Introduction to OER Adoption slide deck Links to an external site. and consider the following customizations:
1. Update the mission statement slide with your own mission statement, calling out those words that reflect a commitment to access, educational equity, and inclusion.
2. Insert a picture of your own food bank, or other student support initiative in order to localize this next slide.
3. In order to reflect the cost of books and supplies at your institution, Google "cost of attendance" at your institution, and then look at the breakdown for books and supplies. All institutions are required to report these costs.
5. Students speaking about their struggle to afford school are very powerful. If you have your own student video, please use it!
You can likely find other ways of localizing the slide deck and data therein to make the content even more relevant to your constituents. If you'd like to see other sample student videos, please check out this playlist Links to an external site. as well as tips Links to an external site. on how to create your own student video.
Additional Resources on Affordability
U.S. PIRG Fixing the Broken Textbook Market Report Links to an external site.
Myth of Students Working Their Way through School report Links to an external site.
Data on Student Loan Debt from the Federal Reserve Links to an external site.