ISU Textbook Hero Jeremy Thomas
Channel: ISU Libraries
Date: 2022-03-08

In this presentation Idaho State University's Dr. Jeremy Thomas provides details about how he worked with his department to adopt and develop supplementary open educational resource (OER) materials for students in a general education sociology course.

Dr. Jeremy Thomas, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology, is the recipient of the 2019 GEM Teaching Award for Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing from the Idaho State Board of Education as well as a 2021 Textbook Hero Award from the Eli M. Oboler Library Open and Affordable Educational Resources Committee. As Department Chair, Dr. Thomas has been leading efforts to eliminate all textbook costs for the Department’s General Education courses, and in doing so, the Department is now collectively saving students more than $50,000 per academic year. He is currently serving as Co-Chair of the ISU Open Educational Resources Committee.