Textbook Alternatives Take Hold at Community Colleges - Mark Lieberman, Inside Higher Ed

A high-profile affordable textbook program wraps up in Arizona having doubled its original goal, and other institutions share similar successes. Institutional funding for a high-profile affordable textbook initiative in one of the nation’s largest community college districts is on track to run out as scheduled this spring -- but the program exceeded the district’s expectations by a wide margin, and efforts will continue in a new form. Meanwhile, a Michigan community college is on schedule thus far to meet an ambitious goal for 70 percent of its instructors to be exclusively offering open educational resources in their courses by 2020. https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/05/09/two-year-institutions-report-significant-savings-oer-initiatives