Do you tend to use librarians at your college to help with access to OERs or to help the students with further research online?

just wondering when -- "We'll post the link to the recording of the session here after the session has been archived." -- Thanks

Hey Don. I went into the Collaborate room and there was still a participant in the room so the recording never completed (Collaborate won't archive a room until everyone is out of the room). So, I manually removed that straggler account from the room and the file is processing. Should be up by tomorrow. Sorry about the delay.

Hi Don, just trying to access it but it has not been posted on the Collaborate site as of yet.

Thanks, Clint and Amanda - I got the link posted and am about to watch the session.

Great presentation! Gained many insights of the Z-Degree Pilot directly from from Linda and Daniel - I can share some notes re: Linda Williams response to a question [27: 35] "Does the Z-Degree perform better because of higher textbook adoption?" ___ "I think that what we see when we look at it and say - why do Z-Degree Students do best or why are they doing better, I think that a couple of factors - one is that all have access to their content on the first day of class - they don't fall behind [cites stats] and so we know that now they have they're course materials and so there's no reason to fall behind - but more than that [28:28] at least in our Z-Project, we made that deliberate effort to redesign our courses and focus content specifically on learning outcomes [28:41] and so we found that we had more well aligned relevant content, less fluff or content creep, and as instructors, because we know our student population the best, we feel like we were able to pick content that they could engage with and understand and succeed with.
So I think it's not so much necessarily the idea of textbook adoption or textbook availability, I think it's the idea of a re-designed, well-aligned course, with all students having access to all content on the day they walk into the classroom." [29:31] [E&O]

Thanks for sharing the presentation - great information. I support the understanding that delivering Z-courses requires a paradigm shift for faculty - one that is long overdue! I am a constructivist and believe that learning is all about co-participation and co-learning. I also appreciate the student comments related to the funding burden associated with traditional textbooks that out date so quickly. This is another prompt to shift to OERs. Along this same thread is the understanding of who are students are these days. Traditional student funding and financing can no longer meet the costs associated with post secondary education thus leaving students, many of whom support families, having to work several jobs in order to support their school associated costs and family. From a nursing perspective - this takes a toll on a human body. From an educator perspective - I believe we have an obligation to make the paradigm leap and make education accessible and dynamic for everyone.