Open Educational Resources Learning Community Group Begins on Open Education Week!

Open Education Week, March 27-31, 2017Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement, which seeks to open up students’ access to educational materials, reducing or eliminating the cost of textbooks and improving learning outcomes.

To celebrate and start this important discussion on Open Educational Resources at CCSU, the first of several Open Educational Resources Learning Community Group workshops will take place this Thursday afternoon in the CTFD classroom at the library.

  • WHEN:          EVERY THURSDAY FROM MARCH 30 – APRIL 27, FROM 3 – 3:45PM
  • WHERE:        BURRITTLIBRARY, 3RD FLOOR, CTFD CLASSROOM
  • SIGN UP:      Google form at https://goo.gl/forms/pdQn7Sqry1Crsw6T2
  • CONTACT      Digital Resources Librarian, Sharon Clapp sclapp@ccsu.edu and Information Literacy Instructional and Assessment Librarian, Martha Kruy mkruy@ccsu.edu .

The LCG includes a Blackboard shell and face-to-face meetings at the CTFD classroom on the library’s third floor on Thursdays from 3-3:45pm starting on March 30 through April 27th. Grants for conversion of courses to an OER basis will be available. To learn more, join us in the OER LCG.