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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Two exciting webinars that tell a story about our system’s OER work!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">Affordable Cost for Course Materials: 10,000 Washington Community & Technical College Students Have Spoken</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;background:#FEFEFE">What do college students believe is a reasonable cost for class materials? How does the cost of the materials affect them? What recommendations do they have
for improving textbook affordability? </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">SBCTC and WACTCSA have partnered to conduct a survey to (1) gauge students’ threshold of what is considered low cost for course materials, (2) explore
the influence of course materials costs on student enrollment decisions, and (3) identify student recommendations to improve the affordability of course materials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">Host:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif"> CCCOER<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">Date/time</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">: February 21, 2018 at 11am Pacific Time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/registration-oer">Register Here</a> for webinar login information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:1.5pt;background:white">
<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;color:#0070C0">OER Adoption: Stories from State Leaders Webinar Series<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Please join ISKME for a new webinar series with state leaders, focused on sharing best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for successful
Open </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;background:white">Educational Resource (OER) adoption. The webinar series will kick off during
<span style="color:#2E75B6"><a href="https://www.openeducationweek.org/"><span style="color:#2E75B6">Open Education Week</span></a></span>. This five part series showcases state leaders who will be sharing their stories of how they got started with OER, how
they determined goals and priorities, and their <span style="color:black">successes and challenges along the way. Our system’s story will be shared on the 24<sup>th</sup> of April.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">Host</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">: OER Commons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif">Date/time:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif"> Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 2:00pm Pacific Time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdF2MMsb538vNjoxuz0ogjdJj5iz8svQ_rcVJDQkXYioZoYXg/viewform">Register Here</a> for webinar login information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Let me know if you have any questions!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Boyoung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#404040">Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">Policy Associate, eLearning & Open Education</span><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges</span><b><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040"><a href="mailto:bchae@sbctc.edu"><span style="color:blue">bchae@sbctc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://openwa.org/"><span style="color:blue">OpenWa</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">|</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.openwa.org/open-attrib-builder/"><span style="color:blue">Open
Attribution Builder</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#404040">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="https://goo.gl/MZL9W9"><span style="color:blue">OpenEd Support and Services</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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