OCA: A Shiny web application for transparent overload compensation in higher education
Year: 2025
Type: software-paper
Abstract: OCA (Overload Compensation App) is an interactive Shiny web application that automates faculty overload pay calculations in accordance with institutional policy and enables users to visualize the results. Designed to promote transparency, reproducibility, and fairness, OCA allows academic administrators to filter, compute, and export overload data across instructors and departments. The app supports strategic blending between institution- and instructor-favoring approaches, offering both flexibility and clarity in compensation planning. OCA is open-source, released under the AGPL-3 license, and requires no programming expertise to use.
Source: SoftwareX
Authors: Dawit Aberra, Xiangyan Zeng, Chunhua Dong Mahon, Sanjeev Arora
Institution: Fort Valley State University
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,200
OpenAlex ID: W4414572017