 Hey guys, it's Shay here again with another Alden series. We have Kelly Broughton here who's going to give us a description of Alt Textbooks workshop. Hi. Hey, Carol. How are you? Good. Good. So what is your role here in Alden? I'm the assistant dean for research and education services. And most of the public services operations and the subject librarians work under my coordination. Awesome. So what exactly is the Alt Textbooks workshop? Well, this is the second year that the libraries have sponsored a program that incentivizes faculty to redevelop or redesign their courses to incorporate cheaper materials for their students and to get rid of the expensive textbook. So the workshop series this year has six components to it. Faculty spend six hours in the workshops over the semester learning about copyright and incorporating multimedia and Creative Commons licensing, library content and open education resources into their courses in place of an expensive textbook. Awesome. So how would you say just how is one of the workshops ran? It's an active learning hour. We have like 35 or so faculty and their subject librarians in the classroom with an expert presenter on whatever topic we're doing that week. We do a little active learning. Today we just finished a Creative Commons workshop where our subject librarian for the humanities, Brian McGurie, taught us about how to read Creative Commons licensing marks, how to apply them to our own work, and how we might want to use other people who have open resources using Creative Commons licenses. Awesome. So is it like hands-on? A little bit, yeah. But it's pretty condensed. There's been a lot of material in an hour with some workshop group activities. Awesome. Where are they hosted? Here in Alden in 251. Awesome. So what would you say, what specific materials do you need in these workshops? Just your brain. We do use some laptops, so usually people have enough devices with them to cover some group projects. Awesome. And how would this benefit an average student here and benefit faculty? Well, for faculty it offers them some set aside time and some support to redesign their courses or relook at the course materials that they're assigning or requiring students to purchase. So it forces them to carve out time out of their calendar to think about this, and then it provides some basic support to help them get through the process, as well as if they finish all six workshops and change the required content for the students and lower the price, they get a $250 incentive at the end of the semester. For students, it reduces the price of the books you need to buy for these courses. So last year when we did this, we had 29 participants, and I think they looked at 32 different classes between these 29 participants, and we spent $12,000 in incentives, and we saved students $230,000 in course material costs this year. That's awesome. Has any students came back later on and you know, gave like a kind of a testimonial over the appreciated? We don't have any testimonials from students right now, but we have faculty telling us about testimonials from students. So we did have some faculty say that when she announced in her class that there would be no textbook that they had to purchase for this class, everybody clapped. That's awesome. How often do you have these series? Are they once a semester? We did them in spring last year and spring this year, so we haven't quite decided what we'll do next year, and honestly the truth is that if there's any faculty member out there who's interested in doing this right now, they just need to get a hold of their librarian. Awesome. How do you have to enroll into the series? For the incentive, yes, for the incentive program you do, but this type of support, the libraries and our partners in the Office of Instructional Innovation are here all the time to help the faculty do this. Is it free for students today? Oh, yeah. Awesome. Well, if you guys have any questions for Kelly, you can write in our comments. You can come in and you can ask her one-on-one, and where's your office located? In the faculty comments, third floor, vault in, room 301C. Awesome. Well, thank you guys. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you. And have a good day. Thanks.