OER Practitioners across the University of Texas system meet regularly to support, advocate for, and advance OER use across the UT System. In 2023, in collaboration with UT System's Momentum on OER taskforce, we were each asked to provide unified cost-savings metrics from courses using OER and/or free materials. In this session, we discuss our ongoing system-wide data collecting projects, including each institution's process for collecting OER data, limitations and challenges in reporting accurate data, and the value of working together to advance OER use across our campuses. Attendees will learn how to create a community to support "solo" OER Librarians, navigating reporting metrics at a system-wide level where each institution has distinct data gathering processes, and lessons-learned to help other institutions effectively gather data and advocate for OER.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Feel empowered to collaborate with other institutions to advocate for Open Education data collection.
- Learn how data-gathering can vary across institutions, and our best practices for reporting diverse data.
- Advocate for resources to better support standardized data collection.
- Communicate how sustainability practices for collecting unified system metrics vary based on institutional support structures.
