By Sean Willett, January 17 2017 —
When I sat down for the first lecture of my molecular biology class, the person at the front of the room was not my instructor. Instead, the class was greeted by a representative … Read the rest
By Tina Shaygan, September 20 2016
Last week, the Students’ Union ran the #TextbookBrokeAB campaign to raise awareness of the high cost of post-secondary textbooks in Alberta. Standing directly outside the bookstore to talk to students that just dropped hundreds … Read the rest
By Scott Strasser, September 13 2016 —
The University of Calgary Students’ Union’s social media awareness campaign for Open Educational Resources (OER) will take place from September 13–15.
OER are free, openly-licensed learning materials that can be downloaded online.
Camped … Read the rest
By Fabian Mayer, September 11 2014 —
Plans to bring open-source, free and editable textbooks to Alberta’s campuses are moving forward. The guiding committee for the Government of Alberta’s Open Educational Resources Initiative, consisting of administrator and student leaders from … Read the rest
