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Next GO-GN webinar features MOOCs, community orientation and social justice Open Courseware policy for Nigeria The Affordable College Textbook Act in USA – legislation introduced OpenStax partners with UK Open Textbooks All the best for this week Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and the ROER4D Network Hub team.
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Some 340 participants comprising Nigerian vice-chancellors, rectors, provosts, librarians and directors of ICT universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, representatives of national and international NGOs, embassies and tertiary education regulatory agencies have endorsed a Draft National Policy on OER. The participants reviewed, finalised and adopted the policy document following a motion by a member and Advisor of the National Steering Committee on OER. More details are available via this link.
The Affordable College Textbook Act seeks to reduce the cost of textbooks at U.S. colleges and universities by expanding the use of open textbooks (and other OER) that everyone can use, adapt and share freely. The
Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which provides free, openly licensed textbooks to nearly 1.5 million college students per year, is Open University’s UK Open Textbooks initiative to bring OpenStax’s textbooks to the UK.
