HSU Sustainable Learning invites you to a fall professional development opportunity that can make college education more affordable, and participants will receive a $300 award, thanks to CSU Affordable Learning Solutions. Registration ends Oct 4th, 2016: https://goo.gl/forms/ewlf6JRV4VWR9wl12.

Attendance is limited, so please register now.

Choose one day to participate in this workshop: Oct 7th 12:00-3:00pm or Oct 10th 9:00am-noon. Food is provided.

Location: Library

What you can expect?

HSU Sustainable Learning Fall 2016 Workshop Schedule:

·        Meet and Greet with snacks and refreshments

o   Discussion of strategies to reduce textbook costs

·        First Segment

o   Finding Open Educational Resources / Open Textbooks

o   Library 121 Lab: Instruction with hands-on activities to locate and evaluate resources

·        Second Segment         

o   Finding Alternative Resources and HSU Press

o   Library 121 Lab: Instruction with hands-on activities to locate and evaluate resources

Objectives:

·        Support locating useful high-quality educational resources that lower the cost of a college education, and increase student learning.

·        Reduce student spending on textbook. Survey results of 309 HSU students during fall 2015: 65% of students indicated they skipped buying a required textbooks because of its costs, and 22.6% said they have not taken or dropped a course because of textbook costs.

HSU Sustainable Learning is supported by funding from CSU Affordable Learning Solutions; and programming is supported by HSU Library, College of eLearning & extended education, Bookstore, and other campus partners. For more information, please see: https://library.humboldt.edu/about/sustainable.html

If you have any questions, please call (826-3441) or email Cyril Oberlander, University Library Dean.