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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. Reviews for relevancy and accurateness “went beyond the community college in that sense,” the instructor says. Anagnoson says she considered using OER before her course was lumped into the Z-degree.

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