Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: OER webinar this week

[John Burger (jburger]

ASERL Friends:

On Thursday of this week we will offer a webinar about the statewide affordable 
textbooks effort in Georgia.  "Affordable Learning Georgia" began in 2014 after 
the Georgia legislature funded an initiative within the University System of 
Georgia (USG) to reduce the cost of textbooks to USG students. The USG reached 
out to Georgia’s Virtual Library, GALILEO, to lead the program.  This 
library-driven initiative has saved students an estimated $16.5 million in 
textbook costs in Academic Years 2015-2016 through promoting the use of open 
educational resources (OER), no-cost materials, and library-subscribed 
materials through its Textbook Transformation Grants program and a partnership 
with eCore, Georgia’s Core Curriculum Online. 

In this webinar, Jeff Gallant, Program Manager of Affordable Learning Georgia, 
will discuss the planning involved in the creation of the program, how 
librarians have advocated for the use of affordable materials on each campus, 
and the initiative’s current and future plans to further college affordability 
and student success. He will also share advice and lessons learned for 
libraries looking to start similar initiatives within their institutions.

WEBINAR:  "Librarians Transforming Education: The Past, Present, and Future of 
Affordable Learning Georgia"
DATE  /  TIME:  Oct 20, 2016 at 2:00 PM EDT. 
REGISTER:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6247657442955010820  

REGISTRATION LIST -- As of Oct 17
1. Auburn University    Todd    Shipman
2. Duke University      Kim     Duckett
3. East Carolina University     William Thomas
4. Florida International University     Valerie Boulos
5. Florida International University     Stephanie       Brenenson
6. Florida State University     Devin   Soper
7. Georgia State University     Kathryn Michaelis
8. Louisiana State University   David   Comeaux
9. Louisiana State University   Tom     Diamond
10. Mississippi State University        Nickoal Eichmann Kalwara
11. University of Alabama       Michael Arthur
12. University of Alabama at Birmingham Peggy   Kain
13. University of Alabama at Birmingham Heather Martin
14. University of Central Florida       Sarah   Norris
15. University of Louisville    Bruce   Keisling
16. University of Miami Elizabeth       Fish
17. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Therese Triumph
18. University of North Carolina at Greensboro  Christine       Fischer
19. University of South Carolina        Shanna  Schaffer
20. University of Virginia      Suzanne Bombard
21. University of Virginia      Ellen   Ramsey
22. Virginia Commonwealth University    Jimmy   Ghaphery
23. Virginia Commonwealth University    Hillary Miller
24. Wake Forest University      Bill    Kane

As always, these sessions are available at no cost to ASERL members, and will 
be recorded for later playback.  Please feel free to share this information 
with other librarians & staff at ASERL institutions.  Our webinars are licensed 
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
License. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.

System requirements to attend this webinar:  
http://support.citrixonline.com/webinar/all_files/G2W010003    

We hope you find this session to be of interest.  Please let me know if you 
encounter any difficulties with our e-meeting system.

--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)

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