Session Title:
Session Description:
[BLANK]
Speaker(s):
DeeAnn Ivie coordinates the Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant program at UT San Antonio and facilitates outreach to campus partners in support of the program. That program has saved UTSA students $13 million in textbook costs and has impacted 89,578 students since 2016. DeeAnn has also worked to advance OER at UT San Antonio by partnering with Academic Innovation and the Division of Student Success to assess faculty and student textbook experiences and OER awareness through the Driving OER for Sustainability and Student Success grant. Some of recent work has focused on advancing OER at UT San Antonio through the OER Task Force, leading the Course Marking subcommittee, and serving on the Final Recommendations subcommittee. DeeAnn is currently serving on several implementation teams to put the task force recommendations into action, including identifying courses for OER adoption, addressing the cost and time requirements of OER development, reimagining an OER professional development curriculum and Faculty Champions program, and centralizing and simplifying OER course markings. DeeAnn administers UTSA Pressbooks, the university’s OER authoring platform with approximately forty public OER and one hundred OER in progress. DeeAnn has served as a Texas Digital Library OER Ambassador, a Texas Higher Education Board Year One OER Fellow, and she received the Texas Digital Library Scholarly Communication Award in 2019. She is certified in OER Librarianship through the Open Education Network and is also Creative Commons Certified. In addition to OER coordination, DeeAnn provides research and teaching support for communication faculty and tailors library sessions and tutorials for classes. DeeAnn earned her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of North Texas. Her ORCiD ID is 0000-0002-9918-9530.
This initiative is made possible in part by Dr. Jennifer Miller-Ray’s participation in the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) OER Fellowship Program, whose vision is “to support mentor relationships for OER use, creation, and capacity building at institutions and statewide.”
last updated: March 3, 2026
