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Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources
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, , , , Brigham Young University

IRRODL Volume 15, Number 2, ISSN 1492-3831 Publisher: Athabasca University Press

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Textbooks represent a significant portion of the overall cost of higher education in the United States. The burden of these costs is typically shouldered by students, those who support them, and the taxpayers who fund the grants and student loans which pay for textbooks. Open educational resources (OER) provide students a way to receive high-quality learning materials at little or no cost to students. We report on the cost savings achieved by students at eight colleges when these colleges began utilizing OER in place of traditional commercial textbooks.

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Hilton III, J., Robinson, T., Wiley, D. & Ackerman, J. (2014). Cost-savings achieved in two semesters through the adoption of open educational resources. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 15(2),. Athabasca University Press. Retrieved August 13, 2024 from .

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