Digital Day Keynote Address: Open Educational Resources - Mark McBride

This presentation will outline development of long-term sustainability and operations plans for Open Educational Resources. Open SUNY Textbooks (OST) was initially funded by SUNY IITG money and participating library contributions towards author and peer review incentives and copy editing services, but their service model did not satisfy all faculty requests. Most faculty were seeking to adopt OER for their own teaching and as OER is gaining momentum as a viable solution to replace over priced course materials, administrators have a similar desire. In responses, SUNY created the SUNY OER Services as a system wide initiative to help faculty and campuses scale OER. Mark is currently Director of Library Services at Monroe Community College (MCC) and past Chair of the SUNY Council of Library Directors (SCLD). He is recognized as an Open Education advocate and has worked tirelessly to help MCC and other SUNY campuses adopt Open Education Resources (OER) as a replacement to traditional course materials. Mark is the cofounder of the Open Education Research Lab at the University at Buffalo.