six historians worked together with the open educational resources librarian of University Libraries on a new course development project with open educational resources and affordable resources.
The project resulted in saving over $50,000 for students who take the required core curriculum two-semester sequence in American history during the 2020-21 academic year. The project helped reduce the average cost of books in those two courses by 25% since last fall, to just over $36.
Internet Archive Will End Its Program for Free E-Books from r/books
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/books/internet-archive-national-emergency-library-coronavirus.html
EDUCAUSE REPORT: The 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report was just released, and the report finds a steady increase in #OER momentum. #HigherEd Read the report here: https://t.co/qkZmeJlxGV
— OER Digest (@OERdigest) April 15, 2020
Here are 2,780+ free ebooks and 100 free audiobooks that are sorted into lists by topic. Please feel free to share this list – stay home and stay safe. I will be uploading new lists as I am able to on more topics. Feel free to share this list with folks looking for free online resources from r/books
“Colleges spent about $70 per student on developing #OER, which mostly went toward paying faculty to develop the courses. Researchers estimated there was an average of $1.03 in gross revenue generated for every dollar spent on redesigning courses.” https://t.co/qK7bClI5HB
— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) February 20, 2020
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/02/20/oer-can-save-colleges-money-too
(reference contributed by Tom Hergert)
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2020/02/04/tophat-and-textbook-publishers/
Top Hat has challenged tangible goods for a long time now. Its first offering was a digital version of clickers to measure student responses in the classroom. In 2017, the company launched a marketplace for e-textbooks, working with authors and offering openly licensed content from the likes of OpenStax as well.
Last year, the company ceased sales of individual assessment tools to instead offer a bundle of its products. Students pay $48 for one year of Top Hat’s products. Interactive textbooks on Top Hat cost an average of $35.
My note: this will be a game changer in regard of the interactivity of textbooks.