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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Since Open Press at the University of Galway was introduced ten OER projects won funding from the Student Project fund. Altogether €20,000 was awarded for OER projects, yielding €45,000 student cost savings per annum. The estimate of student cost savings per year is determined based on the average number of students enrolled in each course and the cost of the learning resources being replaced by the OER. Also, in addition to student cost savings there are many other benefits of OER. Some of the OERs created using Open Press at the University of Galway are listed below:

Funded Projects

Name Author Co-authors
Children's fiction in Spanish Dr Pilar Alderete Diez Louise McMenamin (First Year Global Languages Student)
Media for social change: a syllabus Dr. Andrew Ó Baoill Students in 2022 MES4100 module
Your Anatomy companion Daniel Coyle Prof. Peter Cantillon
Open Histology Dr Helen Dodson Shauna McBride
Bilingual Genomics data science information for schools Dr. Pilib Ó Broin Barry Digby, PhD student CRT in Genomics Data Science
Algebraic coding theory Dr Emil Skoldberg Peter Phelan, NUI Galway (student); Milo Orlich, Aalto University, Finland (student)
MISTRAL - language tools for students Dr. Francesca Nicora Oriana Bologna, Professor Laura McLoughlin
Exploring local cultural heritage in place: A playbook for schools and museums Dr. Sally McHugh Dr. Tony Hall, School of Education; Dr. Fiona Concannon, CELT
Open modules in NUI Galway Neasa Gorrell Dr. Kelly Fincham
Material for victory: The memoirs of Andrew J Kettle Prof. Niamh Reilly Pres Michael D Higgins (Foreword)
Niamh Reilly (Coordinator/lead editor)
Kettles Heritage Society (Declan & Trish Kettle) (Community partners and contributors)
Students in history, politics and publishing

* The estimate of student cost savings per year is determined based on the average number of students enrolled in each course and the cost of the learning resources being replaced by the OER. Also, in addition to student cost savings there are many other benefits of OER.