Finding, Evaluating, and Adopting an Open textbook #UDopentxt
Channel: Mathieu Plourde
Date: 2016-11-07

We will live-stream this brown bag session from Newark, Delaware, USA. Use #UDopentxt on Twitter to contact the presenters. Live streaming will start around 12:10 p.m. Eastern time.
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As the cost of attending college continues to outpace the consumer price index, the cost of textbooks has followed the same trend. This session will introduce strategies faculty can use to find, vet, adopt and adapt freely and openly available learning materials to supplement or replace currently used commercial textbooks.

Presenters will discuss what makes learning materials open and appropriate uses of copyrighted materials in educational settings. Time will be reserved for a question-and-answer session and to let participants search for materials for their own classes.

Presenters will be Meg Grotti (@mggrotti), assistant head of instructional services, University of Delaware Library, and Mathieu Plourde (@mathplourde), educational technology consultant, Academic Technology Services.

More information on open educational resources is available through the UD Library OER Research Guide. http://guides.lib.udel.edu/oer

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mjOMt_TJN01P1AEKvagQh2oB8FRephNMKAdvV-tGKbc/edit#slide=id.p