The average student spends more than $1000 on textbooks each year. Learn how OER is reversing that trend and what you can do to help.
27 October 2011
Open Education Conference
Park City, UT
2011-10-27 In Search of Affordable Textbooks: How OER Can Reduce Costs (Open Ed 2011)
1. In Search of Affordable Textbooks How OER Can Reduce Costs Open Education 2011 Nicole Allen The Student PIRGs www.maketextbooksaffordable.org [email_address] @txtbks
63. If just 1 in 500 profs adopt open textbooks… $1,000,000/sem. $2,000,000/year $20,000,000/decade
64. What You Can Do FACULTY can seek & consider open textbooks, and use other cost reducing practices. More information here: studentpirgs.org/textbooks/take-action What You Can Do
65. What You Can Do STUDENTS can speak to their professors and encourage them to consider open textbooks. More information here: studentpirgs.org/textbooks/take-action What You Can Do
66. What You Can Do COLLEGES can offer support to faculty interested in adopting or writing open textbooks. More information here: studentpirgs.org/textbooks/take-action What You Can Do
67. What You Can Do AUTHORS can show preference for publishers using alternative models, like open textbooks. More information here: studentpirgs.org/textbooks/take-action What You Can Do