Open Educational Resources and the Cost of Required Course ...

The 2018 Washington Legislature directed WSIPP to study open educational resources and the cost of textbooks and required course materials. We ...

Shift to Open Educational Resources is key to avoiding high cost of ...

OER materials are resources that are available at no cost to students through internet access or library lending. They offer an alternative to ...

OER Basics: Why use Open Educational Resources?

One in five college students has skipped or deferred a class due to the price of the required learning resources. · The cost of textbooks is rising at a rate of ...

Study finds open educational resources are cost-effective - THE FEED

From an institutional standpoint, the switch to an OER pathway cost each college approximately $70 per student enrolled in OER courses, when ...

Cost - Introduction to Open Educational Resources

Last year at Simon Fraser University, following a $45,000 investment by the university, students in 11 courses saved $230,000 in textbook costs ...

Open Education - SPARC

The foundation of Open Education is Open Educational Resources (OER), which are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access ...

Open educational resources: How access continues to expand

Open educational resources remain an affordable alternative to pricey textbooks and as an opportunity for faculty to customize content.

Why are OER important? - Open Educational Resources Guide

Research has shown that due to limited financial resources, some students delay or completely forego purchasing required commercial textbooks. “ ...

What is OER? - Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are free or low-cost alternatives to costly commercial classroom materials. OER materials are not just textbooks! OER materials ...

Benefits of Using OER - OER and Low-Cost Materials at Penn State |

OERs give faculty the ability to customize course materials, creating the “perfect” course packet or textbook instead of being bound to a traditional one-size- ...

Calculating (and Acknowledging) the Costs of OER

Early data show, though, that students drop OER courses at lower rates than other classes at Pierce. (She also described the use of open ...

Open Educational Resources cut student costs and increase ...

While each Creative Commons license has its own stipulations, many OER are only required to be cited. OER includes openly-licensed textbooks, ...

Report: Open Educational Resources Save Students Money at a ...

Free digital learning materials, or Open Educational Resources (OER), have been celebrated as a way to reduce student costs and even ...

Open Educational Resources address college costs - JMU

SUMMARY: The cost of classroom books and supplies has proven to be a serious problem for some students. Open Educational Resources ...

Open Educational Resources and Zero-Cost Course Materials: Home

If you do not require your students to purchase any materials for your class, or you do not assign a textbook your course needs to be listed as ...

Open Educational Resources (OER): Why use OER?

Nearly two thirds (64%) of U.S. higher education faculty are aware of open educational resources (OER) and nearly one third (29%) require an ...

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) & LOW TEXTBOOK ...

Zero Digital Textbook Cost. All required course textbooks are free to students in a digital format; students may choose to buy a print version of the ...

Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

Because OER are free to acquire, instructors can design courses to use OER rather than traditional textbooks and eliminate the need for a student to determine ...

Open Educational Resources | OCCRL | College of Education | Illinois

The OER project by OCCRL examined the integration of open educational resources in Illinois community college courses to assess the need and utility of this ...

Open Educational Resources - Northwestern University

No cost course materials ... When the cost of course materials is prohibitive, the classroom is no longer equitable. In addition to being completely free to use ...