Student Awareness Campaign: OER


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Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are available either for free or at a low cost to educators, students, and self-learners to use, adapt, and/or share. Examples include: textbooks, streaming videos, course materials, exams and other tools.   
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Idaho State University Libraries, in partnership with ASISU Student Government, ITRC and the ISU Cultural Events Committee, present ISU Open Education Week 2021!

Student Awareness Campaign

To promote OER on campus, ISU Open Education Week consists of both faculty programming and a student awareness campaign on social media, and will run from February 22-26, 2021. 
I have struggled to by books every semester, including one which I had to drop out entirely. An anonymous quote by an ISU student

Students, how do you handle textbook costs?

How do textbook costs affect you?

Share your textbook stories and enter a drawing for a $50 Visa gift card!

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Valid entries are posts that share personal textbook experiences on Twitter or Instagram that use BOTH hashtags #TextbookTales #OpenEdISU.

The library’s social media accounts will re-share and amplify your stories.

No social media? 

Want to stay anonymous? 

You can also submit via our Textbook Tales form.

For full details and drawing rules, see our OER student advocacy page!

See our website for program descriptions and livestreaming information, or contact KristinWhitman@isu.edu or DaphneTseng@isu.edu with questions. We hope you can join us!