Sunday, April 8, 2018

Open Educational Resources Could Finally Be On the Horizon - Cait Etherington, eLearning Inside

Anyone who teaches at the postsecondary level knows that among students’ most common complaints is the high cost of textbooks. Indeed, at some colleges, textbook cost is contentious enough to warrant a special question on course evaluations. While there was little one could do about textbook cost in a pre-digital era, with digital books now widely available, theoretically, textbooks could be free or nearly free for all students, but they are not. https://news.elearninginside.com/open-educational-resources-could-finally-be-on-the-horizon/