I absolutely agree that ROI shouldn't be the only thing we track and that pedagogy is important but dollars saved by students is what the government that provides funding for this initiative wants to hear about and promote, so it's something we need to track. It's also what students are looking to hear about. Textbook broke campaigns are precisely about student saving. Heather ________________________________ From: Enkerli, Alexandre &lt;Alexandre.Enkerli(a)collecto.ca&gt; Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 12:11 PM To: Brad Doerksen &lt;Brad.Doerksen(a)uregina.ca&gt;; canadaoer(a)lists.bccampus.ca &lt;canadaoer(a)lists.bccampus.ca&gt;; Ross, Heather &lt;heather.ross(a)usask.ca&gt; Subject: RE: [Canadaoer] Question About Tracking OER Usage CAUTION: External to USask. Verify sender and use caution with links and attachments. Forward suspicious emails to phishing(a)usask.ca * I know why the financial ROI gets lots of attention, but we shouldn't let that one part of "selling" OER drive the proverbial bus all the time. Word! Some members of this group have important things to say about the qualitative difference in learning which comes from OER practice. Including in the collaboration involved, instead of “consuming” these resources. Glad this part of the discussion keeps coming back. --Alex [Collecto - Services regroupés en éducation]<https://collecto.ca/> [Collecto - Services regroupés en éducation]<https://badgr.com/public/assertions/CbgU229_SnCArzc_sAypdw> ALEXANDRE ENKERLI CHARGÉ DE PROJETS • SERVICES DE PÉDAGOGIE NUMÉRIQUE T 514 384-9272 F 514 381-2263 collecto.ca<http://collecto.ca/> Actualités<http://collecto.ca/actualites> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/collecto/> 👉 PRENDRE UN RENDEZ-VOUS<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/Collecto1@collect… De : Canadaoer &lt;canadaoer-bounces(a)lists.bccampus.ca&gt; De la part de Brad Doerksen Envoyé : 26 août 2022 13:24 À : canadaoer(a)lists.bccampus.ca; Heather Ross &lt;heather.ross(a)usask.ca&gt; Objet : Re: [Canadaoer] Question About Tracking OER Usage [AVERTISSEMENT] Courriel EXTERNE. Soyez PRUDENT avec les hyperliens et pièces jointes. Merci! My personal opinion is that this kind of use should be considered as part of students benefiting from OER. It may not properly apply if you are calculating something like textbook cost savings for students. But OER are supposed to provide benefits beyond savings on textbook costs and this would be an example of some of those benefits. I know why the financial ROI gets lots of attention, but we shouldn't let that one part of "selling" OER drive the proverbial bus all the time. Brad Doerksen, Student Success Librarian Acting Library Contact for the Faculty of Science University of Regina Dr. John Archer Library The University of Regina is situated on Treaty 4 lands with a presence in Treaty 6. These are the territories of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. Today, these lands continue to be the shared Territory of many diverse peoples from near and far. I have a question related to tracking OER usage. We have a few courses where students aren't required to buy texts because of the way the course was designed but have started using open textbooks to provide students with a resource they may find useful. One example is one of our Engineering courses. There is no book required, but the instructor is going to include the new Guide to using MATLAB open textbook so students have a resource they may find useful in that course. My question is, would you count the students in those courses in your "students benefitting from OER" numbers or do you limit those numbers to only cases where a commercial textbook is being replaced thus saving students money? Thank you. Heather M. Ross, BA BEd MEd Educational Development Specialist University of Saskatchewan Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning Ph: 306-966-5327 Find open textbooks and other open educational resources on: http://open.usask.ca<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url… [cid:image003.png@01D8B955.C6195FA0]