Want to Make College More Affordable for Your Students? | News Center | University of Nevada, Las Vegas

"UNLV Libraries and other departments across campus have recently formed the Open Educational Resources Task Force, led by Amy Tureen, head of the Library Liaison Program, to address these issues. The task force’s first webinar, titled "Why Didn’t My Students Buy the Textbook? How Some UNLV Faculty Members are Using Open Educational Resources," recently tackled the relationship between students, textbooks, and learning. Melissa Bowles-Terry of the Faculty Center led the event sponsored by OIT, Office of Online Education, Faculty Center, University Libraries, UNLV Bookstore. 

Open Educational Resources (OERs) include learning materials, such as textbooks, syllabi, lectures, assignments, projects, and papers, that are available to all for higher education. OERs are both easily accessible and serve as a collection of knowledge across multiple sources. 

The webinar explored how to make college more accessible to students through OERs...."