The Business Of Making OER A Standard For Affordable Textbooks | Moodle News
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Summary:
"For Shouhou and Hai Wang, researchers writing for the University of West Georgia’s Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, textbooks are “shamefully expensive.” The solution to this problem has been in the works for over ten years and its name is Open Educational Resources, or OER. But while some students enjoy the benefits of having access to quality content that remains up-to-date, the vast majority of higher education students still must deal with the prices for original textbooks, whose increases since 2003 have tripled the rate of inflation."