Open Education Week

“Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. We want to highlight how open education can help people meet their goals in education, whether that’s to develop skills and knowledge for work, supporting formal studies, learning something new for personal interest, or looking for additional teaching resources.”  – Open Education Consortium.

Open Education is alive and growing at Clark College!  Students and Faculty are interested in reducing textbook costs for students and increasing accessibility as reported in the Indy.

Community and technical colleges across Washington State are increasingly using more and more Open Educational Resources (OER) to help students reduce costs of textbooks and to give faculty more freedom to develop their course materials.  This Thursday, March 10th at 10:00 am, join the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) for an online student panel:  OER Adoption- Student Voices Panel and Campus Faculty Development.

Here are a few comments from students here at Clark about the costs of textbooks….