PD Workshop: The High Cost of Textbooks: Searching for Alternatives
Webinar: Wednesday March 16th 11:30am-12:30pm
Host: Kelly Falcone, Professional Development Coordinator & Professor Kinesiology & Health, Palomar College
Presenter: April Cunningham, Librarian & Professor, Palomar College
The cost of textbooks creates a serious barrier to enrollment and success for many students. If you’ve wanted to find alternatives, this workshop might get you started in the right direction. We will discuss the library’s textbook reserve collection. We will also discuss the statewide effort to provide peer review for free eTextbooks in selected disciplines. Currently, this project, called California Open Online Library for Education, has completed reviews of free eTextbooks in introductory courses in the following disciplines: accounting, biology, business, chemistry, child development, statistics, microeconomics, public speaking, sociology, and US history to 1877. Forty more courses will be included in the next phase. Attend this workshop to share your techniques for reducing the burden of textbook costs and get new ideas for how to tackle this challenge.
- At 11:30am on March 16th go to the following link to watch and participate in the Google Hangout On Air: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cgp3c4g4ceilhr4mcm04csr502c
- Here is a link to the YouTube page where you can watch live, however if you are viewing on the YouTube page you will not be able to ask questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVOV52t7Ud8
POST SHOW UPDATE:
April provided us with some great sites for free textbooks! I already looked looked through them and found FREE Health textbooks I could use in my Health class! Take a look and see if there are some Open Educational Resources you may be able to use:
- http://www.cool4ed.org/reviews.html
- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
- https://www.openstaxcollege.org/books
Here is the link to April’s Presentation:
Here’s the video:
Are you interested in presenting a workshop online???
Please send me an email and me can schedule a date and time that works for you! kfalcone@palomar.edu
Please reply to this post if you have any additional questions, comments, or thoughts!