Tutorium Awardees in UIC Textbook Program
Tutorium Teachers Awardees in UIC Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program Heading link
The Tutorium is proud to announce that four of its teachers — Trischa Duke, Becky Bonarek, Jenna Buendia, and Steph Mielcarek — are awardees for the 4th annual UIC Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program. This program encourages faculty to use and develop open educational resources (OER) as alternatives to traditional textbooks for undergraduate courses.
Duke, Bonarek, Buendia and Mielcarek received the award for their development of OER materials for the Tutorium course ELSI 043 English for Academic Purposes II. Their “Tier 3” award was for a multi-section course team of instructors writing new openly licensed textbooks.
More than 1,130 students who enroll in the faculty awardees’ courses could potentially save approximately $260,000 by using the OER materials instead of purchasing new textbooks. These resources will be incorporated into the curriculum by Fall 2021. For more information on the Open Textbook Faculty Incentive Program, visit go.library.uic.edu/oer .