Faculty members who choose to teach Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses often do not receive acknowledgment for their conscious and compassionate choice to support students by providing course materials at no cost. At this year's BMCC Week of Thanks, the Library’s Open Knowledge team aimed to highlight the genuine appreciation of students in ZTC courses.
Patrizia Comello Perry and Berenice Darwich, both professors in the Modern Languages Department, discuss how they adapted their department’s annual colloquium to the circumstances of the pandemic, giving voice to BMCC student experiences.
This past spring, BMCC wrapped up Open Teaching Week with an interactive tabling event disguised as a cupcake celebration. After learning throughout the week about how BMCC faculty practice open pedagogy and engage with open educational resources (OER), CETLS and BMCC librarians teamed up to ask students in the BMCC community, “how do you learn best?”
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