Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Textbooks at Bucks: Hidden Fee or Free? Photo+courtesy+of+Unsplash Photo courtesy of Unsplash - Grace Levy, the Centurian

Bucks currently offers free textbooks through its Open Education Resources (OER) program, which provides students with online textbooks that are free. The Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Initiative at Bucks allows students to select courses that use OER textbooks, including 23 courses that purposefully have redesigned their content to include OER textbooks. OpenStax, one of the OERs that Bucks uses, is a website that contains over 40 different textbooks that are free for students, faculty, and colleges to use. OpenStax continues to work on its accessibility to fit the needs of all students, no matter their location in the world.