{"id":11397,"date":"2015-02-13T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=11397"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:41:24","slug":"innovation-grant-award-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=11397","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Grant Award winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten NMC faculty will be pioneers in a new effort to bring down the cost of college by using freely available online educational resources instead of traditional textbooks for their classes in the fall.\u00a0 The NMC Foundation\u2019s Innovation Grant will fund stipends in the form of a new iPad or $500.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has been gaining ground in community colleges and other institutions of higher learning as the cost of college continues to soar.\u00a0 Eliminating the cost of textbooks\u2014an average of $1,200 per student every year\u2014can substantially reduce the amount students must pay or borrow to attend college.\u00a0 OERs are defined by the Hewlett Foundation as \u201cteaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.\u201d\u00a0 They can be used to replace expensive proprietary textbooks and save students hundreds of dollars per semester.<\/p>\n

The following NMC instructors will be teaching one of their courses using only OERs this fall.\u00a0 This will save NMC students approximately $60,000 in textbook costs.<\/p>\n