{"id":15743,"date":"2022-09-01T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/?p=15743"},"modified":"2022-09-01T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T13:43:39","slug":"congratulations-to-the-2022-textbook-affordability-project-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2022\/09\/01\/congratulations-to-the-2022-textbook-affordability-project-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the 2022 Textbook Affordability Project award recipients!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guest post by Kristina De Voe, English and communication librarian, with the Open Education Group&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2022\/08\/headshotslogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"877\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2022\/08\/headshotslogo-877x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2022\/08\/headshotslogo-877x1024.png 877w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2022\/08\/headshotslogo-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2022\/08\/headshotslogo-768x897.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/files\/2022\/08\/headshotslogo.png 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 877px) 100vw, 877px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Libraries are happy to announce our 2022 Textbook Affordability Project grant award recipients:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sonia Isabel Mino Avila, Mathematics, Temple University Japan&nbsp;<\/li><li>Gregory Byala, English (First Year Writing), College of Liberal Arts&nbsp;<\/li><li>Wendy Cheesman, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Public Health&nbsp;<\/li><li>Elizabeth Diamond, Career and Technical Education Program, College of Education and Human Development&nbsp;<\/li><li>Rob Faunce, English (First Year Writing) \/ Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies, College of Liberal Arts&nbsp;<\/li><li>Talissa Ford, English, College of Liberal Arts&nbsp;<\/li><li>Matt Hall, Communication Sciences and Disorders, College of Public Health&nbsp;<\/li><li>Melissa Toomey, English (First Year Writing), College of Liberal Arts&nbsp;<\/li><li>Kathleen Voss, Human Resource Management, Fox School of Business&nbsp;<\/li><li>Jingwei Wu, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These course instructors have all committed to introducing open educational practices in their classrooms in the 2022\u201323 academic year and will be moving forward with project plans to adopt zero-cost learning materials into their courses.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the grant, awardees completed training over the summer, participating in a learning community in which they increased their awareness around open textbooks, open educational practices, and affordable learning materials. They also had the opportunity to develop their projects.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/categories\/textbook-affordability-project\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Textbook Affordability Project<\/span><\/a> (TAP) is a grant program that awards funds to Temple faculty members who make their courses more affordable for their students by replacing costly educational resources with library-licensed materials or <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/guides.temple.edu\/OER\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">open educational resources<\/span><\/a> (OER), including open textbooks. Alternatively, faculty can receive funds for engaging in other open educational practices, like creating learning objects or replacing a traditional assignment with renewable assignments that center students as creators of knowledge. The call for applications goes out annually in the spring.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2011, The TAP has granted awards to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/services\/history-past-awardees\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">over 90 faculty across nearly every discipline at Temple University<\/span><\/a> and saved students over one million dollars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Kristina De Voe, English and communication librarian, with the Open Education Group&nbsp; The Libraries are happy to announce our 2022 Textbook Affordability Project grant award recipients:&nbsp;&nbsp; Sonia Isabel Mino Avila, Mathematics, Temple University Japan&nbsp; Gregory Byala, English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2022\/09\/01\/congratulations-to-the-2022-textbook-affordability-project-award-recipients\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-15743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}