Open Education Week

Open Education Week is March 7-11, 2016 to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities for everyone. Join us in celebrating this world event by learning more about open educational resources (OERs) at the MakerLab from noon to 1 p.m. at the Albertsons Library:

• March 8 – Leif Nelson and Amber Sherman, Saving Students Money by Rethinking the Textbook
  
• March 9 – Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Finding and Using Open Educational Resources: Saving Students Money
  
• March 10 – Chris Mathias, The Idaho State Board of Education’s Involvement with Open Educational Resources

Save Students Money by Rethinking the Textbook

Textbooks are expensive and they don’t always fit the learning objectives of your course.

Join Leif Nelson and Amber Sherman for a brown bag lunch workshop on how you can save students money by rethinking your textbook and adopting open educational resources (OERs).

We will give you an overview of the textbook problem and show you how to get started identifying, evaluating and incorporating open material in your course. This workshop will be offered on Monday, November 16th starting at noon in the MakerLab at Albertsons Library.

A hands-on workshop for faculty to search open educational resources and importing content to Blackboard will be offered on Tuesday, November 17th. Sign up at https://orgsync.com/117745/events/1276503/occurrences/2859504

Amber Sherman,
ScholarWorks Librarian