Lockdown sucks. The isolation sucks just as much.
With all this time spent inside, it’s easy to become bored out of your mind. When the boredom and mundanity get to be too much, we find ourselves doing the most absurd shit we wouldn’t normally do to escape the endless days of doing absolutely nothing.
Some of us revel in the feeling of doing nothing the lack of productivity being a welcome change to some of us who are hard workaholics. And while the lack of having things to do can feel like a blessing, the lack of any feelings of achievement during these unproductive days can upset even the most resilient of us.
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The Zero Textbook Cost initiative aims to help students save money on textbook fees by providing free open educational textbooks available for students to use during their courses.
Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani is an Associate Vice Provost of Open Education at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He is also the co-director of the Open Pedagogy Notebook and serves as an Associate Editor of Psychology Learning and Teaching. He recently received the Emerging Leader Award from the International Open Education Awards for Excellence.
The ZTC initiative began as a means to raise awareness of high textbook costs among university students. ZTC started three years ago, Jhangiani worked on the initiative along with faculty members, staff members, and students.