A Message to College Leaders: Don’t Overlook Resources Right Under Your Nose - Goldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Ed

More and more institutions and instructors are now eschewing textbooks in favor of course materials that they can use free of charge, edit, and remix with other sources. I was especially eager to highlight this trend because of some recent studies showing how OER is becoming a force for affordability (this study,for example, looked at two years of OER at 38 community colleges and found that students saved between $66 and $121 per course), and for better educational outcomes (this study highlighted that lower-income students at the University of Georgia performed better academically thanks to OER). https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Message-to-College-Leaders-/244879