This Open Education Week, the Douglas College Library, with the generous support of BCcampus, is hosting an Open Education Week Celebration on Wednesday, March 5, 2025! This event will be an opportunity to recognize achievements and to engage with, learn from and share experiences with those who are interested in reducing course material costs for Douglas students.
For more than 10 years, the faculty at Douglas College have contributed significantly to reducing commercial textbook costs for students. They have saved students over 7 million dollars ($7,201,134) by switching from a commercial textbook in their class to an open textbook.
This does not include the tremendous cost saving for students when our faculty chose zero and/or low-cost course materials such as print or digital coursepacks, freely available web content, licensed digital materials accessible through the Library collection, homework systems and more.
The Douglas College Library offers a range of services to support the work of faculty to move towards open or zero and/or low-cost materials, and are excited that this support continues to expand as we develop staff expertise and offer tools such as TalisAspire.
Douglas College Library is thankful to have received financial support from BCcampus to host this event.