Textbook Affordability 项目 由 the 大学图书馆

关于博士. 罗伯斯

Dr. 西尔维娅罗伯斯 is a visionary entrepreneur, 教育家, 研究员, and advocate of Humane-Innovation-Sustainable-based Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement by EMPOWERING her 学生 and RGV entrepreneurs through her Adopt a Startup at 金沙中国 Program to develop sustainable businesses. Dr. 罗伯斯 has experience with working with engineering 学生 as an Instructor and Mentor for I-Corps teams. 也, all her courses (traditional, 英国独立电视台, online asynchronous or synchronous) hold the Service Learning designation, so all her 学生 actively impact the business community and develop soft skills. She is currently the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Sustainability Faculty Fellow, the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization at 金沙中国 布朗斯威尔 Faculty Advisor, and a lecturer of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship/Department of International Business and Entrepreneurship.

项目

She redesigned the course Principles of Management MGMT 3361-92S which includes a 35 hours service-learning (SL) project "Management Report" and was taught online asynchronous during summer 2020. She had the opportunity to blueprint this course and incorporated the open textbook Principles of Management 从 OpenStax. She hopes that more instructors will adopt this open textbook which is included in the blueprinted course.

Course Redesign Experience

Redesigning her course consisted of challenges including reviewing the new content and redesigning the Management cases so they could match the SL Management report's deliverables and the weekly materials. The textbook chapters were in a different order, and presentations needed to be modified and updated for accuracy. COLTT assisted her in creating accessible slides for 学生 and inputting test banks for her 学生 which required revisions of the answers throughout the semester.

学生的反馈

In the student’s reflections and course feedback, they thanked her for switching to an affordable textbook. 也, the 学生 found the OER material and cases very interesting. The 学生 even mentioned it would be really important to promote this so more instructors would adopt affordable teaching materials. Even though she had issues with the tests and begged 学生 for their patience as she was using this OER material for the first time, they still gave very positive feedback.

反射

Overall, it was a very productive experience for Dr. 罗伯斯 even though she encountered many issues before implementation and during the semester. The 学生' final feedback revealed how important it was for her to use quality affordable teaching materials in her course. The 学生 learned and enjoyed the new material while saving also saving a lot of money. She was thankful for the opportunity to serve her 学生 better.