Fewer Printed Textbooks For Nicolet College Students - KEN KRALL, WXPR

An innovative program at Nicolet College has saved students tens of thousands of dollars in textbook costs. The college has found a way to get the textbook course material online at a free source which students can tap into. Manager of Open Educational and Instructional Resources at Nicolet, Cindy Domaika outlines how it works... open education resources come in a variety of forms, anywhere from textbooks, videos, sometimes entire courses. They're free and mostly come in digital You can do print versions at a reduced cost, but the free versions are digital..." The majority of the material came from oercommons.org, content-rich website where educators from across the globe openly share a wide variety of digital instructional material that is available at no cost. http://wxpr.org/post/fewer-printed-textbooks-nicolet-college-students