The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department
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John Hilton III, Brigham Young University ; Donna Gaudet, Phil Clark, Scottsdale Community College ; Jared Robinson, David Wiley, BYU
IRRODL Volume 14, Number 4, ISSN 1492-3831 Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Abstract
The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one community college’s adoption of a collection of open resources across five different mathematics classes. During the 2012 fall semester, 2,043 students in five different courses used these open access resources. We present a comparison between the previous two years in terms of the number of students who withdrew from the courses and the number that completed the courses with a C grade or better. Our analysis suggests that while there was likely no change in these educational outcomes, students who have access to open access materials collectively saved a significant amount of money. Students and faculty were surveyed as to their perceptions of these materials and the results were generally favorable.
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Hilton III, J., Gaudet, D., Clark, P., Robinson, J. & Wiley, D. (2013). The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(4),. Athabasca University Press. Retrieved August 13, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/148192/.
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