[Wactclc-alma] [EXT] Re: OER Usage Statistics

[Staley, Laura]

Tracy, your question made me think of something I'd love to try.


I'd like to work with an instructor to select a good OER book.  Then convince the Administration to pay for enough books to provide textbooks for the whole class. The book records would be edited so we could do stats reports in Alma, and then checked out to students by the library.  At the end we would collect statistics on 1) the number of weeks they were checked out, and 2) compare the pass rate in that class to the pass rate in similar classes where the students provided their own books.  I'm sure there are all kinds of interesting ways to use those stats.


It would be really interesting to do that for an entire program, and see if it enhanced retention rates. Retention is a very big deal for C&TCs.


Laura Staley / RTC



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?Good idea. But to my knowledge, this isn't currently obtainable.


Since OER resources are free, no per-customer gatekeeping is done on the OER sites, and thus no per-customer COUNTER data can be generated or tracked.


The only exception to this might be OER resources that are provided through paid vendor accounts. I believe some of the paid platforms do include OER content, which may be tracked by any COUNTER reporting done through those respective vendors.

Wade Guidry - wadeg at bigbend.edu
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Good Morning,

I am curious if anyone has created an Analytics report on the usage of OER materials. I think this would be a nice statistic to keep.

Best Regards,
Traci


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