Faculty save students $1.1 million on course materials - Haley Herfurth, University of Alabama Birmingham

In four semesters, 17 faculty members at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have invested time and energy on behalf of students, with substantial results. By creating their own online assets in Canvas, using rental textbooks or older editions, and identifying free online resources, faculty saved students more than $1 million on instructional materials. Or $1,176,330, to be exact. That is up from nearly $270,000 in fall 2017, when the first Affordable Instructional Materials (AIM) grants were awarded. https://www.uab.edu/news/campus/item/10154-faculty-save-students-1-1-million-on-course-materials