{"id":339,"date":"2011-03-22T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/open-textbooks-the-college-student-speaks-out\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T21:06:00","slug":"open-textbooks-the-college-student-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-textbooks-the-college-student-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Textbooks:  The College Student Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tuesday, April 5, 2011<\/b><br \/><b>2:00-3:00 PM EST \/ 11:00AM-Noon PS<\/b>T<\/p>\n<p>Moderator: Nicole Allen<br \/>Textbook Advocate for the <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=dtr4fkcab&amp;et=1104907138509&amp;s=2043&amp;e=001-sZD7ON6wMhkjciOadbkSLsbOvhCZ1e2jz-sklU515tZddFfj9uCIo2sCbBPGJ-laEti6mSbqkjCuTb6kOnjQ24LKGGX2oU5oKTDEF5Zp7fzhIYdcNZ2Tg==\">Student PIRGs<\/a> and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=dtr4fkcab&amp;et=1104907138509&amp;s=2043&amp;e=001-sZD7ON6wMj89jreteRcmmyvWnvBE_0nP8JVM1KHY0gW3tsv10ERM5aGwlhQs92qmp0EhoI746Xo2wHrVk5rUDrA6FI0cA6l787EvkYvCQjX6EJXvW7Wwp07U0K2_rH0mQTQ9bMDHDU=\">Make Textbooks Affordable<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In the national debate surrounding textbook affordability and adoption, the student voice often goes unheard.  Join Nicole Allen, the national Textbook Advocate for the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs), and college students from around the nation as they discuss their initiatives to make textbooks affordable through the use of high-quality open textbooks and other cost-saving solutions.  Learn what motivates students to become and stay involved, and how they impact teaching and learning along the way.  Don&#8217;t miss this lively discussion!<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Textbook.JPG\" style=\"clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Textbook\" height=\"133\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/6\/63\/Textbook.JPG\/300px-Textbook.JPG\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 0.8em;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 150px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Textbook.JPG\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?llr=dtr4fkcab&amp;oeidk=a07e3irlwe224ef7952\">Info<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/event?llr=dtr4fkcab&amp;oeidk=a07e3irlwe224ef7952\">rmation and Free Registration<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;\"><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7fea60cc-3c0c-4b25-b969-4a280223a3b2\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 5, 20112:00-3:00 PM EST \/ 11:00AM-Noon PST Moderator: Nicole AllenTextbook Advocate for the Student PIRGs and Director of the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign. In the national debate surrounding textbook affordability and adoption, the student voice often goes unheard. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-textbooks-the-college-student-speaks-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,30,246],"tags":[79,157,268,754],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opentextbooks","category-textbook","category-textbooks","tag-e-book","tag-nicole-allen","tag-student","tag-student-pirgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}