Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources

Textbooks represent a significant portion of the overall cost of higher education in the United States. The burden of these costs is typically shouldered by students, those who support them, and the taxpayers who fund the grants and student loans which pay for textbooks. Open educational resources...

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Autores principales:	John Levi Hilton III, T. Jared Robinson, David Wiley, J. Dale Ackerman
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2014
Materias:	Open educational resources open textbooks electronic textbooks open access Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:324067b0fa72438999bc90be8d1fb9b52021-12-02T19:25:29ZCost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources10.19173/irrodl.v15i2.17001492-3831https://doaj.org/article/324067b0fa72438999bc90be8d1fb9b52014-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1700https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 Textbooks represent a significant portion of the overall cost of higher education in the United States. The burden of these costs is typically shouldered by students, those who support them, and the taxpayers who fund the grants and student loans which pay for textbooks. Open educational resources (OER) provide students a way to receive high-quality learning materials at little or no cost to students. We report on the cost savings achieved by students at eight colleges when these colleges began utilizing OER in place of traditional commercial textbooks. John Levi Hilton IIIT. Jared RobinsonDavid WileyJ. Dale AckermanAthabasca University PressarticleOpen educational resourcesopen textbookselectronic textbooksopen accessSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2014)
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description	Textbooks represent a significant portion of the overall cost of higher education in the United States. The burden of these costs is typically shouldered by students, those who support them, and the taxpayers who fund the grants and student loans which pay for textbooks. Open educational resources (OER) provide students a way to receive high-quality learning materials at little or no cost to students. We report on the cost savings achieved by students at eight colleges when these colleges began utilizing OER in place of traditional commercial textbooks.
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title	Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources
title_short	Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources
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Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources

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