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Rebecca Higgins; Breen Riley; Jennell Talley; Alessandra Barrera; Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy; Shoshana Katzman – American Biology Teacher, 2023
To reduce the cost of educational materials needed by students, we generated a no-cost open educational resources (OER) textbook for an undergraduate level cell biology course. Cell biology is part of the curriculum in various undergraduate degrees for science, technology, engineering, and math majors, therefore generation of OER targets a large…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, College Science
Gallant, Jeff – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
The cost of course materials creates a gap between students who can afford them and students who cannot. Open educational resources (OER) are one way to close this gap through freely shared and flexible instructor-authored resources. OER programs have plenty of support through organizations that coordinate conferences, highly impactful open…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, Student Costs, Grants
Nagashima, Tomohiro; Harch, Susan – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2021
Despite an increasing need for integrating Open Educational Resources (OER) into teaching at higher education institutions in North America, advocates could better understand how faculty are motivated to adopt OER. In particular, there is a lack of knowledge about how added incentives can help motivate faculty to adopt OER. Given reported barriers…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Motivation, Open Educational Resources, Incentives
Cozart, Deanna L.; Horan, Erin M.; Frome, Gavin – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2021
As college costs have continued to rise, textbooks now average more than $1,200 per student per academic year as of 2020. Traditional textbooks are not only expensive, but also have fixed and frequently outdated content. In this study, we compared pre-service teacher-student outcomes and perceptions of a traditional textbook versus no-cost, online…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Open Educational Resources, Electronic Learning, Cost Effectiveness
Chiorescu, Marcela – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
It is estimated that the average student spends around 1200 USD on books and supplies every school year; thus, textbook affordability has become more and more of a challenge for students. Replacing traditionally expensive learning resources with open educational resources (OER) can have a great impact in the reduction of cost for post-secondary…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Algebra, College Students, Costs
Bates, Rodger; Young, Karen; LaBrecque, Bryan; Southard, Sheryne – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
The increasing cost of textbooks has created a demand for no cost/low cost learning resources for students. The University System of Georgia, through their Affordable Learning Grants has supported the development of no cost/low cost course transformation activities. Faculty at Clayton State University (CSU) have been engaged in the development of…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Shared Resources and Services, Higher Education, Costs
Croteau, Emily – Open Praxis, 2017
In 2014, the state of Georgia's budget supported a University System of Georgia (USG) initiative: Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG). The initiative was implemented via Textbook Transformation Grants, which provided grants to USG faculty, libraries and librarians, and institutions to "transform their use of textbooks and other learning…
Descriptors: College Students, State Aid, Grants, Textbooks