Best Email Reply Ever

Best Email Reply Ever

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 —...
The Holy Grail

The Holy Grail

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...
Open Textbook Day at the Library

Open Textbook Day at the Library

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...