Home Management Houses: Part I History and a Case Study of Kansas State University

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Y. Nickols
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naiqian Zhang ◽  
Masaaki Mizuno ◽  
Gurdip Singh ◽  
Amy Gross ◽  
Mitchell Neilsen ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlene N. Simser ◽  
Marcia G. Stockham ◽  
Elizabeth Turtle

Purpose – This paper aims to present a case study of the Kansas State University Libraries open access publishing endeavor, New Prairie Press (NPP). The library as publisher is a growing worldwide movement. Many academic and research libraries see it as their strategic mission to highlight and disseminate the research and creative work being done by faculty and students at their institutions. Topics covered include current activities, business plan development, needed technology and skill sets and migration from an open source platform to a hosted solution. Design/methodology/approach – The article presents a case study of one library’s experience of establishing a publishing press – libraries as publishers. Findings – This article finds that during the years of operation, NPP staff members have learned much about the role that libraries can play in the evolving scholarly communications landscape. Originality/value – This article finds that the continual assessment of value, alignment with strategic goals and funding will be critical to ensure future growth and direction of the press.


Author(s):  
Brent A. Anders

To better illustrate how an online learning environment can be used as scaffolding for the purposes of Discovery Learning, the learning management system (LMS) known as Axio Learning was reviewed and evaluated. Axio Learning, developed from the ground up by Kansas State University (student population of about 25,000) since 1997, is a modern, full-featured learning/course management system.


2020 ◽  
pp. e20190121
Author(s):  
Tesfaalem Tekleghiorghis Sebhatu ◽  
Rudovick Kazwala ◽  
Derek Mosier ◽  
Maulilio Kipanyula ◽  
Amandus Muhairwa ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Jonathan Lashley ◽  
Rebel Cummings-Sauls ◽  
Andrew B. Bennett ◽  
Brian L. Lindshield

<p class="3">This note from the field reviews the sustainability of an institution-wide program for adopting and adapting open and alternative educational resources (OAER) at Kansas State University (K-State). Developed in consult of open textbook initiatives at other institutions and modified around the needs and expectations of K-State students and faculty, this initiative proposes a sustainable means of incentivizing faculty participation via institutional support, encouraging the creation and maintenance of OAER through recurring funding, promoting innovative realizations of “educational resources” beyond traditional textbooks, and rallying faculty participation in adopting increasingly open textbook alternatives. The history and resulting structure of the initiative raise certain recommendations for how public universities may sustainably offset student textbook costs while also empowering the pedagogies of educators via a more methodical approach to adopting open materials.</p>


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