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Barrier To Learning: Why We Can No Longer Afford High Textbook Prices, Victoria Koger, Linda Sizemore

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The prohibitive costs of textbooks are affecting student success. We will start the session with an activity, then gauge audience experience on the issue before reviewing current research. The presenters will provide strategies on what libraries can and cannot do and facilitate discussion of proposed solutions and concerns about OER sources.

Prototyping The Open Textbook Toolkit: Digital Infrastructure That Connects Libraries, Disciplinary Faculty, And University Presses To Support Open Education, William M. Cross, Mira Waller

Digital Initiatives Symposium

If you care about access to information, student success, or transformative education you’re probably thinking about the potential of open educational resources (OERs). As a profession, librarians have embraced open education but so far, we have not given faculty instructors the tools or infrastructure needed to drive wide engagement. Faculty are interested in creating customized resources that empower their instruction but barriers around creation, hosting, and remix of OERs are too high.

This session introduces the Open Textbook Toolkit, a project designed to reduce those barriers and grounded in deep research about the unmet needs of instructors and students. Currently …

The Unh Oer Ambassadors Program, Eleta Exline

University Library Scholarship

Keynote presentation at Technology Day for Language Teachers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. April 29, 2017

A Tale Of Two Campuses: Local And Global Approaches To Reducing Textbook Costs, Eleta Exline, Jen Carroll, Annie E. Donahue

University Library Scholarship

Poster presented at Association of College and Research Libraries 2017 National Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. March 24, 2017