Celebrating OER Week at Durham Tech

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College Board Annual Survey of Colleges 2022-23 data for Student Budgets: Public Two-Year In-District Commuter data reads for average: $3,860 for tuition and fees; $9,610 for room and board (rent, etc.); $1,460 for books and supplies ($340 for course materials and $1,120 for "other" supplies such as computers); $1,870 for transportation; and $2,430 for other expenses
March 6-10 is Open Education Week! Open Educational Resources (OER) are high-quality educational materials that are available for free in the public domain and can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed under Creative Commons licensing. These materials can be textbooks, research documents, or instructional tools, among other things. https://youtu.be/gLWTbIt8l3U Durham Tech has already awarded stipends for OER adoption to almost 20 instructors, and the OER Task Force is pleased

Zero Textbook Cost Pathways for Career and Technical Education: Meeting Today, 5 PM

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"ZTC Pathways, What's Your Plan?" Coffee Talk with ISKME. 3/9/22, 5 - 6 PM EST. Zoom meeting link provided below.
To celebrate Open Education Week 2022, San Mateo County (Calif.) Community College District and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) are hosting a Zoom-based conversation about Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) opportunities for Career and Technical Education. You can join the Zoom meeting here: https://smccd.zoom.us/j/84255431012. What are Zero Textbook Cost pathways? Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) pathways give college students a clear path to a credential without having

Reporting from #OpenEd21

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I attended #OpenEd21, the online Open Education Conference, from October 18 - 22, 2021. There were many outstanding sessions at the conference. Fortunately, many of the presentations were recorded and made publicly available. I highlight a few of the sessions I attended below. I recommend scanning the presentation titles on the conference schedule for those that appear interesting and relevant to you. At the page for each presentation, I recommend also following the link to its topic (such as