2,143
edits
Changes
no edit summary
= <span style="font-size:large;">Video</span> =
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=UkYGIlpjApM}}
= <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy 1: Advocate the Adoption of Open Educational Resources</span> =
<font size="4">College students and financial burden have gone hand-in-hand for as long as adults have had acess to higher education. For years, we have instilled and perpetuated the idea that students ''need ''to go to college in order to be successful. That being said, students are also expected to pay for an education with money they simply do not have. There are many factors that contribute to the financial burden of students, and many of these factors are not easy to change. However, there is one particular facet that we ''can'' change and that we can change simply and easily: '''textbooks'''.</font>
*<font size="4">'''Tactic 1:''' Pool together a reposity of acceptable free online textbooks that match with currently existing courses.</font>
*<font size="4">'''Tactic 2:''' Survey professor's thoughts and feelings about their current curriculum and textbook, and what they think about the financial burden their textbooks may put on students.</font>
= <span style="font-size:large;">Strategy 2: Make-a-thon</span> = <font size="4">Makerspaces are work spaces for collaboration, building, and creating. A makerspace is useful for all students of all majors because it allows them to get down and dirty and put their hands on real, physical objects to help understand the applications and industry standards. Folsom Lake College has a makerspace called the Innovation Center that is ran by Zack Dowell of which Nathaniel Adams and Rebekah Keely work for. </font> *<span style="font-size:large;">'''Tactic 1:'''</span> = <span style="font-size: large;">Strategy 3: Faculty-Student Collaboration Sessions </span>=
*<span style="font-size: large;">'''Tactic 1: '''Create rough draft of program details, events, </span>
= <font size="4">Related Links</font> =