[Athen] [EXT]Re: Book for an online student

[Wink Harner]

I didn’t either! I’m with everyone who chimed in about having our DSS
office buy the book(s) and scan to appropriate alt format for the student.

Cheers
Wink

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 5:50 AM Robert Beach <rbeach at kckcc.edu> wrote:


> Sorry, I didn’t understand your question. Just to make life easier for

> all, I would purchase the book. It’s the cost of accommodating an online

> student. It cannot be a cost put on the student.

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> It's not necessarily sharing the scanned files, but asking the student to

> mail me the physical book that's the difficulty.  Is that fair to do, since

> they would have to pay to do this?  Or would we be expected to buy a copy

> of the book or reimburse his shipping?

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> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:18 PM Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi Robert et al ATHENITES,

>

> We did this frequently at Southern Oregon University not just for students

> in online classes but for all students (mostly all). We used Sugar Sync,

> and online filesharing application, and would convert the books to the

> appropriate format and upload the files to sugar sync, where the students

> could logon and download wherever they happened to be.

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> There are a number of apps that are free that are efficient and easy to

> use in this category, we chose one for the college that was a paid

> subscription service, was not terribly expensive, but because we wanted to

> protect both the privacy of the student and the copyright of the books we

> created individual links for each student for their books and contract when

> or if they downloaded the books or if other attempts were made to download

> the books. The files are removed each semester. If a student needs it

> again, we can reload the file for them.

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> If you need help with recommendations on cloud-based services, let us

> know. Sure there are many of us online it would be happy to share

> recommendations.

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> This is more common than you might think! There are fairly simple ways of

> dealing with it. Now you know :-)

> Hope this helps.

>

> Wink Harner

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> On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:16 PM Robert Spangler <rspangler1 at udayton.edu>

> wrote:

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> Hello, I have an alternative format request from a student who is enrolled

> in one of our online programs and is not local.  The publisher has not

> responded to a request for an alternative format version of this textbook.

> Normally, I would offer the student an in-house scan of the text, but this

> is hardly convenient given the student is not local.  Has anyone else

> experienced this issue, and what did you do?

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> Thanks,

>

> Robert

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