AIM Spotlight

Dr. Amanda Walden, Lecturer in the School of Global Health Management and Informatics, has made a significant and consistent effort to reduce course material costs for students at UCF. She has adopted and created affordable and open educational resources (OER) across several courses, including HSC 3537, HIM 4676, HIM 3006, and HIM 4508. Her commitment…

As a university, we strive to do our best for our students and provide them with quality courses. The Knights’ Choice Award — a student-nominated award — recognizes a faculty member selected by students not only for their use of affordable course materials, but also for the positive impact these materials have had on students…

The LEAD Scholars Academy — Stacey Malaret, Virginia Koch, Mark Allen Poisel, and Germayne Graham — has made a significant and consistent effort to reduce course material costs for students at UCF. The team adopted affordable and open educational resources (OER) for LDR 2001: Foundations of Leadership Studies and LDR 2002: Intermediate Leadership Studies, benefiting…

Christine Kugelmann, Lecturer of Technical Communication in the English Department, has made a significant and consistent effort to reduce course material costs for students at UCF. She has adopted affordable and open educational resources (OER) in several courses, including ENC 3241: Writing for the Technical Professional, ENC 4265: Writing for the Computer Industry, and ENC…

As a university, we strive to do our best for our students and provide them with quality courses. The Knights’ Choice Award – a student nominated award – recognizes a faculty member that has been selected by a student(s) for not only their use of affordable course materials, but also how their course materials affected…

You don’t need to squint into a microscope to see how a department has worked to help students succeed. The Biology department implemented Open Educational Resources (OER) across the department through the adoption of OpenStax. Their department was selected to receive the 2024 AIM High Impact Group award because of their large-scale impact on thousands…

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost degree.” ~ Erza Pound Christian Beck, an Associate Lecturer in the College of Arts and Humanities in the department of English, has made a significant and steady effort to reduce course material costs for students at UCF and has created two Open Educational Resource…

Student voices are what we strive to hear and listen to. The Knights’ Choice Award – a student nominated award – recognizes a faculty member that has been selected by a student for not only their use of affordable course materials, but also how this affected the student financially and academically. Dr. David Rozek, an…

You don’t have to dig too far to find a group of faculty members dedicated to student learning and savings. The Anthropology department was selected to receive the 2023 AIM High Impact Group Award because of their large-scale efforts to implement open educational resources (OER) and library-sourced materials across the department. The department’s decision to…

When two things combine, a beautiful chemical reaction can occur. Such is the case for this year’s individual award recipient. Dr. Nicole Lapeyrouse, a lecturer in the College of Sciences in the department of Chemistry, was selected to receive the 2023 AIM High Impact Individual Award for her significant and steady effort to reduce course…