Mauldin Receives UTA CARES Innovation Grant

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by Jasmine Bridges
August 25 2021

Dr. Rebecca Mauldin was awarded a UTA CARES Innovation Grant for her project, “Creating Advanced Research Methods OER with PhD Students.” Mauldin, an assistant professor for UTA’s School of Social Work, received the grant to develop an open quantitative methods textbook for doctoral students.

The UTA CARES Grant Program, managed by UTA Libraries, helps educators adopt and create open educational resources (OER), which are free course materials that are licensed so others can revise and reuse the content. Mauldin’s project will save students enrolled in the Advanced Research Methods (SOCW 6340) course $230 in textbook costs during Fall 2021. After publication, this free resource not only will be available to students, but also to instructors in graduate programs outside of Texas.

However, the impact of the project goes beyond cost savings. Mauldin’s OER will fulfill a need for a quantitative methods book that gives doctoral students a more critical understanding of research in their field. Students in her course will adapt a master’s level OER as the basis for creating a new textbook at the PhD level. One unique feature of this multi-year project is that it centers on an open pedagogical model. Several cohorts of students will engage in knowledge production by working together to integrate their learning into a resource for their peers.

Mauldin commented, “I’m a huge fan of OER for its flexibility and the cost savings for students. This project is important to me because it provides our social work doctoral students with OER materials for their own use, and it also exposes them to the process of creating OER and to open pedagogy.”

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