About me
Claire Nickerson is an associate professor and the Open Initiatives Librarian at Fort Hays State University (FHSU) in Kansas. She also sits on Open Up Learning Kansas, the statewide OER steering committee for the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR). At FHSU, she chairs the institutional OER Committee, which manages a thriving Z-Course Grant Program, course marking initiative, annual departmental OER awards, an Open Education Week event, and asynchronous z-course boot camp. The Committee is currently working on a data dashboard and on adding an OER authors’ strand to FHSU’s annual Scholarly and Creative Activities Day. At Open Up Learning Kansas, she chairs the data subcommittee, which conducts an annual survey of OER initiatives at KBOR’s 32 higher education institutions.