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Author Archives: Denise George
Tuesday Tips: Need something to read?
Try an ebook from the GSU Library. You can always search the library catalog by ebook title if you’ve have something in mind already. However, browsing is easier through an ebook database. Find out more in this video tutorial or … Continue reading
Posted in Books, For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Resources
Tagged Ebooks
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Join Us for Open Education Week, March 1-5
Open Education Week is an annual event celebrated around the world to promote open sharing and other open practices. This week brings increased awareness to open content and issues surrounding education access, pedagogical effectiveness, and more. Each year, the corpus … Continue reading
Open Education Week: March 4-8
Each day, from March 4-8, the GSU Library at all GSU instructional sites will celebrate Open Education Week. Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and … Continue reading
Posted in For Faculty, For Students, Services
Tagged open education week; open education; OER; open educational resources; textbooks
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Remembering Aaron Swartz
Today, we remember Aaron Swartz on the sixth anniversary of his death. Although Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) initially saw copyright as an obscure issue not worthy of his energies, he grew to view aspects of copyright law as tools in larger … Continue reading
Posted in Faculty Publications and Research, Graduate Student Publications and Research, Publications and Research, Services, Uncategorized
Tagged aaron swartz, censorship, internet freedom, OER, open access
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Free digital textbooks from the University of North Georgia Press
In partnership with the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, the University of North Georgia Press offers a number of free digital textbooks. Most of the free digital textbooks include a Creative Commons license that allows them to be uploaded to iCollege … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Design, English, For Faculty, History, Services, Uncategorized
Tagged affordable learning georgia, art, English, history, open education; OER; open educational resources; textbooks
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Announcing Textbook Transformation Grants Round Thirteen, Due Jan. 14, 2019
Affordable Learning Georgia is issuing a new Request for Proposals for Textbook Transformation Grants with applications due by January 14, 2019. Projects have a maximum Final Semester of Spring 2019. Affordable Learning Georgia’s Textbook Transformation Grants are intended to: Explore and expand new and … Continue reading
Posted in For Faculty, Instruction, Services, Uncategorized
Tagged Textbook Transformation grants; open; textbooks; OER; open educational resources
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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Watch Paywall, the movie. (It’s a free movie.) Have you ever been prompted to pay for an article that you need for your research? If so, you’ve seen what we call a paywall. The GSU library subscribes to hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in For Faculty, For Graduate Students, For Students, Uncategorized
Tagged OA, oen access, OER, open access week, scholarly publishing
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