An Open Letter to U of A Students: Razorbacks for OER!
Image Source: Pixab y . CCO Creative Commons Dear Razorbacks, During the Fall 2016 term over 1600 students at the University of Arkansas were enrolled in Sociology 2013 a popular core curriculum elective. The average textbook price was $141 for a new textbook, $106 for a used or rented textbook. If open textbooks had been adopted for this high enrollment lower division core course significant cost savings would have been realized by students. The chart below illustrates this. Fall 2016 SOCI 2013. Enrollment- 1678. Data compiled from U of A class schedules and U of A bookstore. There is a lot of talk on our campus and campuses around the country about the high cost of college attendance. Reducing the cost of textbooks is one way to lower the cost of attendance. Open Educational Resources are textbooks and other course materials professors can adopt or create for use in their classrooms. T...