Training and Professional Development

  • 12/2 Affordable Textbooks: OER and CC BY 4.0

    Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

     

    Lunchtime Seminar

    Providing an opportunity for faculty, graduate students, and professional staff to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact and reflect on a variety of topics to enhance teaching and learning.

    The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers the following workshop:

    Affordable Textbooks: OER and CC BY 4.0
    Kathleen Labadorf, University Libraries
    Textbooks are expensive but there are affordable alternatives. This workshop is an introduction to the top repositories for free, online, open textbooks and learn how to adapt, remix, and link content to create custom texts for your classes. Help students learn and lower their debt.

    Wednesday, December 2nd
    11:15-1:10pm
    ROWE Center, room 318

    A boxed lunch will be provided.  If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere.  Requests made within 7 days of seminar will not be honored.

    Registration is required.

    To register and view more workshops, please visit http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/.

    For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu