In Gratitude

All worthwhile efforts are collaborative, and this one is no different, particularly in its spirit of open pedagogy. We would like to extend our deepest appreciation to the following supporters.

We received grant generous support from:

• The Williams Instructional Fund at the University of Oregon. This fund was established in 1996 by Tom and Carol Williams to support faculty who are “willing to search for better and more effective ways of learning”. We are grateful for this vision and the concrete resources it provides to make it possible.
• Open Oregon Educational Resources. These grants are designed to support faculty and institutions to develop fully accessible and openly licensed course materials in higher education institutions across the state of Oregon.
• The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at the University of Oregon. Funding from CAS was awarded to departments for supporting diverse student participation in research projects. The Linguistics Department awarded a portion of these funds to our Open Pedagogy project.

The Open Oregon grant included a stipend for an OER project mentor. Liz Pearce, author of the Open Pedagogy OER Pressbook Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens accepted our request to fill this role. We are indebted to Liz for her advice, stories, and conversations with Halima and Keli over coffee during her visits to Eugene.

The Open Oregon grant also included a stipend for our University of Oregon OER Librarian, Rayne Vieger, who went the extra mile to support our team throughout the year from start to finish. She created a Pressbooks OER called The Open Pedagogy Toolkit for our team to use as a resource on Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Resources, one that also served as a model for how to create and structure a book using Pressbooks. Rayne met with our team as a whole and individually for consultation multiple times, and aided in troubleshooting formatting issues at the end of the editing process.

We would like to thank a number of other individuals who contributed to this project:

Cameron Teubner-Keller, who was a teaching assistant for LING 144 in Fall 2023 alongside co-author and project manager Bibi Halima. Cameron provided support to our project through writing feedback, student support, and glossary contributions for the project.

The team of faculty who first collectively proposed and brought to life the LING 144 course in 2020: Kathie Carpenter, Spike Gildea, Jeff Magoto, and Melissa Baese-Berk. We also thank former instructors of this course Harinder Khalsa and Robert Elliott, as well as former teaching assistant Nicole Williams. All of these individuals contributed significantly to the conceptualization and development of the course materials that inspired our own Pressbooks content.

Lee Rumberger, Associate Vice Provost for Teaching Engagement for the Teaching Engagement Program, for her energizing guidance during the conceptual stages of this project.

Allia Service, Open Education Resources Specialist in the University of Oregon Libraries, for her excellent support in making our materials accessible.

The Department of Linguistics for its encouragement during the development and presentation of this project at the Spring 2024 Linguistics Colloquium.

The collective support of the many friends, colleagues, and family members that cheered all of us on for this project. Their care, encouragement, and yes, even admiration for attempting to do such an endeavor kept us going through all the fun and less fun moments of writing, creating, and revising.