OC Learning Center to bring technology to students

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Beginning this summer, the Odessa College Learning Resources Center will allow students to check out hotspots and Samsung Galaxy Chromebooks, enabling them to do schoolwork remotely from home.

Through a partnership with the Ector County Library, the LRC will receive 20 hot spots and 20 Chromebooks for OC students to use.

Executive Director of Student Learning Resources at OC, Mireya Jacuinde, said that Ector County Library staff would provide training to LRC staff members on May 17. Shortly after, at the beginning of the MayMester or the Summer 1 session, students could start checking out the equipment.

Jacuinde added, “We have had computers for our students to check out in the past, but the equipment had to stay on campus so they could be connected to the internet. This new partnership with the Ector County Library allows our students to check out a hot spot and a Chromebook, giving them reliable digital connectivity and broadband and the benefit of working on their schoolwork at home.”

To check out the hot spots and the Chromebooks, the students will need to sign an agreement, and will be held financially responsible for any damage to or non-return of the equipment.

Students will be able to check out the hot spots and the Chromebooks for four-week periods, and will be able to renew if they still need to use the equipment.

“Our students have asked for this type of student support to hel...