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Assessing the OER & Textbook Experience at UTSA
Presents UTSA student and faculty feedback collected through the DOERS Student Success Through OER Rubric Grant: Fall 2024-Spring 2025
Improving Course Marking
Summary
The top two suggestions, each with 25% of responses, are to improve visual cues in ASAP and to add a separate textbook filter, indicating strong student interest in clearer, more accessible course information.
- Visual ASAP: 25% (110 responses)
- Separate textbook filter in ASAP: 25% (108 responses)
- Prioritize courses in results: 14% (62 responses)
- Add steps to find NCTB/LCTB courses: 11% (50 responses)
- New Field in ASAP: 7% (30 responses)
- Other suggestions: 6% (26 responses)
- Banner/Pop-up in ASAP: 5% (24 responses)
- Multiple suggestions: 3% (15 responses)
- Unable to determine: 2% (9 responses)
- None provided: 2% (8 responses)
Summary
A strong majority of students (60%) recommend promoting OER and low-cost textbook courses widely across the university, rather than limiting efforts to specific departments.
- Promote Widely Overall: 60% (520 responses)
- Multiple Divisions: 22% (188 responses)
- Registrar/Enrollment Services: 7% (57 responses)
- Academic Innovation: 6% (53 responses)
- Advising: 3% (24 responses)
- AIS/University College: 1% (6 responses)
- UTSA Libraries: 1% (7 responses)
- Multiple (second instance): 0% (2 responses)
- OneStop: 0% (2 responses)