When Your Textbook Is Free, That’s Amore - Meghan Kita, Muhlenberg College

The College’s introductory Italian course is the first to use a faculty-generated Open Educational Resource instead of a costly textbook. Most of the students taking Elementary Italian I this fall are first-year students. As such, they’re relatively new to College Textbook Roulette, an unfortunate reality college students nationwide have faced for decades: Will this semester’s bill be a few hundred or a few thousand dollars? Even so, Assistant Professor of Italian Daniel Leisawitz says, “There were definitely a lot of smiles on the first day of class when we presented the syllabus and said you don’t have to buy a textbook.” https://www.muhlenberg.edu/news/2018/whenyourtextbookisfreethatsamore.html