Bay College Plans "Free the Textbooks" Rally at Bay West - UP Matters

Bay College will hold its third annual “Free the Textbooks OER Rally” on Wednesday, October 24, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. CT in the lower level commons at Bay West. The event, featuring free food, soft drinks, and prizes, is being held to bring awareness and energy to Bay College’s open educational resources (OER) degree initiative. OER are alternatives to publisher-provided textbooks, software, and other course materials, which are often very costly to students. OER reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. The shift to OER can save students large sums of money--potentially thousands of dollars--over the course of their college careers. Most OER are free digitally and very low-cost in print form. https://www.upmatters.com/news/local-news/bay-college-plans-free-the-textbooks-rally-at-bay-west/1516905451