I was surprised to receive an email from a student mid-summer, a full two months before the fall semester began. When I read the subject line, I smiled and felt the tension melt from my shoulders. “Fall 2019 Semester Text Book Question” it said. I smiled because — even before I read the rest of… Continue Reading Best Email Reply Ever
Do you <3 your textbook? If you don’t, your students probably don’t either. What would it be like to teach a course with text materials that did exactly what you want them to do? This is the Holy Grail of the OER project. Yes, the price of textbooks is insane and unfair. Yes, the publishers have… Continue Reading The Holy Grail
Helping bring down the cost of college by choosing free or low-cost textbooks is one way faculty can lighten the load for students and keep them on the path to a degree. As the cost of textbooks has risen, students have coped by simply not purchasing them. Having every student in your classes arrive the… Continue Reading FOR FACULTY WORKING WITH OER
Open textbooks are free online, cheap to print, and have saved NMC students $481,000 since Fall 2015! Come learn more about the Open Educational Resources movement on Tuesday, March 21, all day in the library. Textbook Petting Zoo: Compare quality and prices of traditional textbooks and their OER counterparts. Student/Faculty Textbook Forum: A discussion between… Continue Reading Open Textbook Day at the Library
While at the Open Education Conference last week, a woman said, “I just work at a community college”, to which someone shouted “Never say ‘just’ a community college.” I don’t remember what was said after that at the session, because I was fixated on that idea, ‘just’ a community college. In the Open Education Resources… Continue Reading Never say…”JUST a Community College”
