ER&L 2015

As the cost of a college education continues to rise, students are piling on debt and recent graduates are struggling under the weight of loans. The Cougars Affordable Learning Materials Project (CALM) aims to aid faculty in replacing costly textbooks by using high-quality open educational resources (OER), library resources, digital or customized textbooks, and/or faculty-authored materials. Presenters will lead participants in a session on how to identify OER and how they can create their own sessions.

BC sought a way to gain better control over how its open access titles were represented in the Alma knowledgebase. The result was the investigation of submitting the collection as a publisher to the vendor side of the knowledgebase. This also gave BC an unexpected marketing tool.