Saturday, February 18, 2023

Barton Community College reaches a $500,000 savings milestone with reduced or eliminated textbook costs - Great Bend Tribune

As Barton Community College welcomed the start of 2023, it also welcomed a significant milestone in its efforts to help students save additional dollars. In total, students who have enrolled in classes with no-cost or low-cost course materials have saved over $500,000. These courses are known in higher education as Open Educational Resources (OER).
 Director of Innovation and Compliance Lee Miller has spearheaded the OER initiative since its inception in 2019.