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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black">Great News! I was just informed by SBCTC's ctcLink Support team that the description changes for OER and Low-Cost Textbook Course Attributes have been approved to include a dash at the beginning of the description.
This change will go into effect on<span> </span><b>January 18th, 2022</b>. This enables course<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">a<span style="margin:0px;color:black">ttributes to</span><span> </span>be<span style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>more
visible to students while they search for classes in HCX Mobile. With the addition of the dash at the beginning of the description, these<span> </span></span>attributes<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">now appear at the top of the drop-down
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black">The change was approved based on our request<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">-<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">wit</span>h<span style="margin:0px;color:black"><span> </span>strong
support from the eLearning Council and Library Leadership Council<span> </span></span>-<span> </span><span style="margin:0px;color:black">and I am truly grateful and proud. Special thanks to Dawn and Candice, the chairs of the council</span>s, for their prompt
response and leadership<span style="margin:0px;color:black">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;color:black">Please let me know (<a href="mailto:bchae@sbctc.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:underline">bchae@sbctc.edu</a>)
if you have any questions. See <a href="https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/educational-technology-open-education/oer-low-cost-label-implementation.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/programs-services/educational-technology-open-education/oer-low-cost-label-implementation.aspx" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:underline">OER
& Low-Cost Labeling: Implementation Guide</a> for general information about the OER/Low-Cost labeling guideline.</span></p>
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<a></a><span style=""><b><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-family:Ebrima"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif"> </span></span></b></span></p>
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