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What’S Up With Textbooks?, Janelle Wertzberger
What’S Up With Textbooks?, Janelle Wertzberger
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Presentation at a faculty meeting on textbook costs and actions that instructors can take to improve student learning
How Much Do You Spend?: Textbook Affordability At Gettysburg College, Mary R. Elmquist
How Much Do You Spend?: Textbook Affordability At Gettysburg College, Mary R. Elmquist
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This poster, created for Musselman Library's Charting your Course 2019 first-year orientation activity, explains some of the strategies that Gettysburg College students can use to mitigate the impacts of rising textbook costs.
Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, And Academic Success, Janelle L. Wertzberger
Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, And Academic Success, Janelle L. Wertzberger
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This session will give Gettysburg College faculty a chance to learn more about open textbooks and how to discover options that might work for the courses you teach. Open textbooks can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide faculty with content that can be customized for their course. Open textbooks are full, real textbooks, used by many faculty across the country, and licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed. After the workshop, participants will be invited to write a short review of an open textbook they might assign in a course (please note: open textbooks …