Faculty Help Students Save Money on Textbooks - Greg Bobinec, Lethbridge Herald

University of Lethbridge faculty members helped save students more than $250,000 in textbook costs in the last academic year, by adopting Open Educational Resources (OERs), which are freely accessible and openly licensed educational materials in text, media and other digital forms that are used in teaching, learning, assessment and research. OERs give students a significant savings, with some spending up to $1,500 on textbooks during one academic year. Seven courses have been developed for OERs by mathematics professor Sean Fitzpatrick, who customized open-source textbooks in a way that makes them fit closely with the course. Students can download the OER for free or print it at low cost. https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2018/09/26/u-of-l-faculty-help-students-save-cash-on-textbooks/