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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Openwa <openwa-bounces@lists.ctc.edu> on behalf of Monique Belair via Openwa <openwa@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:42 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> An open educational resources network for WA faculty and staff <openwa@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Monique Belair <mbelair@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Openwa] Recommendations NEEDED: Proftech subject areas for open textbooks</font>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt; color:#002451">Recommendations NEEDED: Proftech subject areas for open textbooks</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">Sponsored by the FIPSE grant from the U.S. Department of Education, SBCTC has been developing a set of openly-licensed textbooks in some of the highest-demand professional-technical (proftech) programs. They are Introduction
to Healthcare, Introduction to Welding, and Introduction to Criminal Justice.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">SBCTC expects to begin another round of development of open textbooks
</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">and is in the process of identifying
<b>NEW subjects</b> to include. Specifically, we are looking to create </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; background:white">Introductory level textbooks in the proftech field that </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt">have high enrollment or high industry demand</span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt">and will benefit by the development of openly-licensed textbooks</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">We would greatly appreciate any recommendations for potential proftech textbook subjects. Please send these directly to me (<a href="mailto:mbelair@sbctc.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable">mbelair@sbctc.edu</a>), preferably
by Friday, June 30<sup>th</sup>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">Thank you,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">Monique</span></p>
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