Quarterly Monitoring Report, Fourth Quarter, Second Year


View the  full Quarterly Monitoring Report for the fourth quarter of the second year of the project.

Highlights from this quarter include:
  • The Nursing Skills textbook has completed development and undergone peer review by over 65 faculty, industry members, students, and librarians. Revisions are currently being incorporated based on reviewer feedback. The e-book will be published by June 1 in Pressbooks and an affordable print version will be published this summer by XanEdu.
  • The Nursing Fundamentals textbook has completed development and is undergoing final editing and proofreading.  It will undergo peer review in May 2021 and will be published this summer.
  • The first Open RN Virtual Reality prototype scenario was developed incorporating three levels of learning using virtual simulation.  It was presented at IMSH in January 2021. Additional OER virtual simulations are being developed. 
  • There have been over 94,000 views and almost 600 hours of watch time of OER augmented reality simulation videos uploaded to the Open RN YouTube channel.
  • The Nursing Pharmacology textbook has had over 220,000 international page views since June 2020. It was implemented in 42 course sections in the Wisconsin Technical College system in 2020, impacting 764 students with a student cost savings of $118,000. WTCS course sections using this OER textbook had a completion rate of 92%, similar to the average, pre-COVID completion rate for this course of 91%. 
  • Over 160 WTCS faculty have completed the free, online course entitled, "Student Success with Open and Affordable Resources" developed and facilitated by the Open RN Lead Librarian. As a result of the course, over 48 WTCS faculty have implemented OER and AER in 78 course sections for a student savings of $555,270.

 

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