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Bay celebrating Digital Learning Day

ESCANABA — Bay College will be celebrating Digital Learning Day 2020 to recognize the $1,108,900 saved to students by replacing traditional textbooks with Open Educational Resources or OER. The event is Thursday, Feb. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Student Success Center (the “HUB”) on the Escanaba campus.

OER are alternatives to publisher-provided textbooks, software, and other course materials, which are often very costly to students. OER reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. The shift to OER can save students large sums of money — potentially thousands of dollars –over the course of their college careers. Most OER are free digitally and very low-cost in print form.

Currently, over 30 Bay College courses are using OER, and 11,089 students have taken courses using OER since the fall of 2016, saving them $1,108,900 in textbook costs.

Digital Learning Day 2020 is open to the public. Bay College will be providing cake and ice cream, and fruit and veggies. For further information about OER or Digital Learning, visit www.baycollege.edu/oer

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