Open Education Week has been busy at Ryerson!
The Learning & Teaching Office hosted a workshop on open textbooks that I was very happy to co-facilitate with members of the Ryerson University Library & Archives, the Chang School’s Digital Education Strategies, the Office of e-Learning, faculty members from the Department of English, and a student from the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing.
See the slides for the @RyersonLTO workshop for #openeducationweek with @AnnLudbrook @pomathorn @MGtheID @wefreeman https://t.co/G4r4ec5BH1
— Michelle Schwartz (@MichelinaNeri) March 8, 2018
The library also set up a table to showcase open textbooks from eCampusOntario. We were lucky to get a special visitor:
Eggy the Ram checking out the open textbook display @ryersonlibrary #oerweek pic.twitter.com/F9BLVxM5mR
— Sally Wilson (@pomathorn) March 8, 2018
We asked students to mark on post-its how much they spent on textbooks this semester and put them up on a whiteboard. We got answers ranging from $0 (representing students who skipped buying the textbook, downloaded pirated copies, were sharing old editions, or sitting at the reference library) to $1500 a semester. A student who spent $1500 last semester reported not buying any textbooks this semester because they had “learned their lesson.” All of the students were excited to see the print-on-demand versions of the eCampusOntario open textbooks that we had on display.
We asked @RyersonU students how much textbooks cost a semester and learned it was up to $1500! #openeducationweek @RyersonOER @wefreeman pic.twitter.com/PJ52REwQfj
— Michelle Schwartz (@MichelinaNeri) March 8, 2018
