The Office of Scholarly Publishing and UITS have partnered to create a day-long symposium, “Driving Student Success through Affordable Course Material.”

The symposium will explore the connection between course material costs and student success, progression, and retention, and will feature three experts on affordable course material from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Morning workshops will explore tools and repositories for finding and creating affordable course materials firsthand. The afternoon panel will provide an overview of current initiatives at IU and UW-Madison and address how course material costs impact students in more depth. The day will conclude with an informal reception, where attendees can meet one-on-one with IU experts to get started on adopting or creating affordable course material in their own courses. 

Lunch will be provided to attendees. 

Symposium schedule: 

• 10 AM - 12 PM: Morning Workshops
  • Option 1: “Making Open Textbooks and Other Interactive Learning Activities with Pressbooks,” Wells Library Learning Commons, Classroom ​W144
  • Option 2: "Supporting Campus- and Course-Level Adoption of Open Course Content," Wells Library Learning Commons, Classroom W138
• 12 - 12:30 PM: Lunch
  Hazelbaker Hall (Wells Library E159)
• 12:30 - 2 PM: Afternoon Panel ​
  Hazelbaker Hall (Wells Library E159)
• 2 - 2:15 PM:
  Break
• 2:15 - 4 PM: Reception and Consultations
  Wells Library Scholars Commons, Consultation Rooms

Registration deadline: February 28

Presented by IU Office of Scholarly Publishing & UITS

Thursday, March 8, 2018

10:00am - 4:00pm

Hazelbaker Hall (Wells E159), Wells Library W138 (Learning Commons), Wells W144 (Learning Commons Classroom, SE corner)