Grand Valley Magazine Spring 2017 - 9

"I want to help provide options
that enhance students' education
without breaking their banks."
STEVEN HENLEY, STUDENT SENATE
strides toward lowering the cost of textbooks
for their students through online texts or older
editions of books."
In October, Henley joined forces with
Malayna Hasmanis, vice president of Student
Senate's Committee of Educational Affairs.
Together, they linked Grand Valley with the
global OER awareness event, International
Open Access Week, through various campus
events and workshops.
"It is imperative that students have access
to open resources so we can be empowered
in our education, and allowed to expand
our knowledge in order to become the best
versions of ourselves," said Hasmanis.

Student support
Steven Henley, a junior with
a double major in political
science and communications,
leverages his position as a
member of the Student Senate's
Committee of Educational
Affairs to help promote the
benefits of OER on campus.
Henley has been regularly
meeting with heads of various
departments at the university
to discuss the initiative.
"I want to help provide
options that enhance students'
education without breaking
their banks," said Henley.
"What I've found is that most
departments are already taking

Flexibility for faculty
Faculty members can choose from a wide
range of existing OER when crafting their
curricula, but they can also create the
materials themselves, alleviating the need to
work with big publishing houses.
Since 2008, the campus community has
added its own works to ScholarWorks@GVSU,
the university's open-access repository,
which is currently home to more than 10,500
publications. The documents in the repository
have been downloaded more than 3 million
times from people around the world.
Three professors, Matt Boelkins, David
Austin and Steve Schlicker, co-authored
"Active Calculus," a free textbook that
encourages faculty members to use active
learning pedagogy in first and second
semester calculus courses. "Active Calculus"
is currently one of the most downloaded
publication on ScholarWorks with more than
55,000 downloads since 2014.

WHY USE OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES?
LOWER COST
TO STUDENTS
Makes education more
accessible, sustainable,
flexible and effective.

FLEXIBILITY
FOR FACULTY
* Equals and exceeds
the quality of traditional,
commercially published
course materials.
* Customizable to fit
the needs and context
of individual courses.

BREAKS DOWN
BARRIERS
TO KNOWLEDGE
"Through support for OER,
Grand Valley is putting more
information in the hands of
more people ... so that they
can learn more, contribute
more ... make more discoveries,
and create more ideas to
benefit future generations."
MATT RUEN

KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL

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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Grand Valley Magazine Spring 2017

West Side story
Knowledge for all
Hopes and dreams for a better future
Fund honors son's memory
Athletics
Q&A
Off the Path
Research
Arts
Campus News Briefs
Alumni Giving
Alumni Profile
Alumni News Briefs
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