Dr. Joshua Cafferty SOC 1010 Introduction to Sociology

https://uen.pressbooks.pub/soc1010cafferty/

There was significant cost savings to students. I used the OER for all of my Introduction to Sociology courses saving the students $65 each.

Curricular changes: 

I changed my lectures to more closely match the OER to provide consistency for the students.

Teaching and learning impacts: 

I think overall the text is comparable to what I was using previously in terms of impacting student learning. So I think we are receiving the same result with less of a financial burden put on students. In terms of my teaching, it has put a little more work on me since there are less resources than the textbook I used previously in terms of assignments and other things, but I have been able to manage these.

OER Adoption Process

Cost reduction for students. Ability to edit, update, and add to the OER.

Student feedback about using OER:  In my reviews, I received similar ratings of students liking and disliking the OER as my previous textbook. So it would appear there has not been any negative effects from that small sample.

Instructor Name:

Joshua Cafferty, PhD

Applied Sociology professor in the middle of second year at Utah Tech University.