Nicolet College slashes textbook costs in many classes - River News Online

For many college students, there's no way around it. Textbooks are expensive. Students commonly shell out hundreds of dollars each and every semester for the required books. To cut textbook costs, Nicolet College recently changed the way it provides educational materials for many classes so students can get everything they need for free. "We piloted the program this past fall and we estimate that it saved students about $30,000 that first semester," Cindy Domaika, manager of Open Educational and Instructional Resources at Nicolet, announced in a press release. http://www.rivernewsonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=47&ArticleID=80343