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Save Your Students Money with CarmenBooks

Consider taking advantage of CarmenBooks , an inclusive access program that offers digital copies of selected textbooks and other course materials for a fraction of the cost. With CarmenBooks, students can save up to 80% off retail price and access digital course materials through CarmenCanvas.

ALX Requesting Grant Proposals

The Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) is requesting proposals to participate in our next cohort! ALX awards grants to instructors who want to transform their courses using open and affordable course materials. Any course at The Ohio State University is eligible for consideration–from small seminars to large, multi-section general education courses.

Innovate Conference Brings CarmenBooks Discussion to the Stage

The 10th annual Innovate Conference at Ohio State is a time for exploring groundbreaking approaches to education with technology, and Ohio State’s College of Social Work’s pilot of CarmenBooks is an excellent example. Lois Stepney, MSW Program Director, and Mike Shiflet, ALX Digital Publishing...

Anthropology Students “Live Their Way” Into a New Way of Thinking

The Department of Anthropology recently changed the course Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTHROP 2202), which has been taught for almost as long as the department has been around, by no longer requiring a traditional experience of buying a textbook or taking exams. Instead, students...

2019 Open Education Week Resources

Did you miss Open Education Week 2019 ?

No worries, learn more about world-wide OEW and view additional resources below. The following resources from Ohio State include topics like video accessibility and copyright basics.

2019 OEW Resources...

The Benefits of Open Education

March 4 – 8 was Open Education Week, a global event which aims to raise awareness of a wide variety of open educational practices and the benefits they bring to education. The week is organized each year by the Open...

Board of Trustees Approves CarmenBooks Expansion

The approved CarmenBooks expansion is expected to affect more than 11,000 students in 32 courses and nine colleges and departments, resulting in total savings to students of more than $1 million.

Join a Collaborative Community of Instructors Committed to Free Test Banks

ODEE is looking for participants for a Spring Content Camp, which will gather expert faculty from around the country to create textbook-agnostic assessment banks that can be used (for free!) by instructors.

First Group of Open Education Resources Available

The partners of the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative are proud to announce that the first grouping of online resources are already available for student use at colleges and universities throughout Ohio.

Students Contribute to Textbook That Will Also Benefit Ohio Communities

How do the environment and religion connect? That’s exactly what Professor Greg Hitzhusen is trying to explain to his students in his Religion and Environmental Values in America course through the School of Environment and Natural Resources. Read his interview to learn how he used an Affordable Learning Exchange grant at Ohio State to create a new learning resource for students.

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