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Textbook Costs And Open Educational Resources In Core A, Jonathan Hunt
Textbook Costs And Open Educational Resources In Core A, Jonathan Hunt
USF OER Faculty Grant
Adoption of no-cost text options by the Department of Rhetoric and Language for Core A courses could save University of San Francisco students up to $250,000 per year. The cost of new, bookstore-purchased textbooks for a USF student taking the most common or “normative” path through Core A (RHET 103, RHET 110/N, RHET 120) averages $316.14. Textbooks costs vary widely and are highly unpredictable: the most expensive sections can have more than 300% higher costs for books than the least expensive. A student landing in the most costly sections would spend up to $492.50 on texts required for the “normative” …
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Charlotte Roh
The Open Education Initiative At Umass Amherst: Seeking Alternatives To High-Cost Textbooks, Charlotte Roh
Charlotte Roh
As part of Open Education Week, this presentation was part of a panel of practical examples of open education in action. It includes an overview of the Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as some of the expected and unexpected consequences. Open Ed Forum: Opening Minds, Sharing Knowledge
Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licensing, Charlotte Roh
Copyright, Fair Use, Creative Commons Licensing, Charlotte Roh
Charlotte Roh
These are slides from a workshop on copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons licensing for the Open Ed Forum at UMass Boston. It is an introducton to these concepts for the higher education environment.
Open Education Initiative: University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn Billings, Charlotte Roh
Open Education Initiative: University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Marilyn Billings, Charlotte Roh
Charlotte Roh
Poster for the Open Education Conference 2014 in Washington, DC. The Open Education Initiative (OEI) began in 2011 as a response to the high cost of textbooks and the burden of student debt as barriers to education and learning. The OEI faculty incentive program provides small grants to faculty for: - the creation of new teaching materials, - the use of library subscription materials, - or the use of existing open (free) information resources to support our students’ learning. It is widely considered a successful program that builds on existing infrastructure and is scalable across big and small institutions. As …