Mid expands educational resources to help students - Midland Daily News

Fall 2018 saw 116 course sections use OER, resulting in 2,499 instances where a student did not have to purchase a textbook. OER efforts at Mid have saved students over $517,000 in textbook costs since they began. The fall semester of 2018 resulted in the largest savings total yet for students, totaling $283,900. OER is now active in math, speech, English, Spanish, psychology, physics, astronomy, and sociology courses. "OER is free to students, allowing them to focus on what is most important -- their education. Students really appreciate that we understand the importance of keeping costs down. They can spend the money they would use for textbooks on more important things," Long-Kish said. https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Mid-expands-educational-resources-to-help-13462543.php