May 1
Kristi Jensen on "The Road to Affordable Course Content"
Tuesday, 1 May, 11:45-1:15, Valhalla Room, St. Olaf
Kristi Jensen, Program Development Lead, eLearning Support Initiative, University of Minnesota
This event will be open to all Carleton and St. Olaf Faculty and Staff -- Please RSVP for this event.
The soaring cost of higher education, development of new open educational resources publishing models, and the changing market for traditional textbook publishers have prompted numerous institutions to undertake affordable content efforts in order to reduce the cost of and insure equitable access to course materials. for students. In this session, learn more about why the cost of course materials makes a difference to students today, a range of affordable content options, why faculty choose to investigate these options for their courses, the impacts of these efforts for faculty and students, and how campus partners can collaborate and contribute to affordable content in a variety of roles.
Louis Epstein (Music ,St. Olaf) will also speak about his work on the Open Access Musicology project.
Kristi Jensen is the Program Development Lead for the eLearning Support Initiative at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She co-manages the Libraries' Partnership for Affordable Content grant program and works with partner institutions through the Unizin Teaching and Learning group to further affordable course content efforts. She is currently co-editing a book about affordable content efforts across the U.S., The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples, to be published in the summer of 2018.
The Future of Publishing series is generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Broadening the Bridge Grant and cosponsored by the Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts at St. Olaf and the Perlman Center for Teaching and Learning (LTC) at Carleton.