Accessible Course Content & Open Educational Resources | Library

Amyluv's bookmarks 2017-11-02

Summary:

"You are here Home > Find > Find by Type of Resource Accessible Course Content & Open Educational Resources Accessible Course Content and Open Educational Resources What are OER? Why Use OER? What Instructors Can Do What Students Can Do Where To Find OER Guides and Resources Accessible Course Content and OER at the University of Guelph   Accessible Course Content and Open Educational Resources The high cost of commercial textbooks creates financial burdens for many students. A number of recent studies have highlighted the impact on students of rising textbook costs, from financial hardship to academic challenges to social and mental health consequences. A survey conducted in the Fall of 2016 uncovered similar impacts for students at the University of Guelph. Textbook costs have been estimated to have increased by 82% in the past decade. Furthermore,  publishing industry practices such as the bundling of content, the use of access codes to control access to ancillary materials, and the frequent updating of textbook editions, have virtually eliminated the used textbook market. (U.S.PIRG, “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: how students respond to high textbook costs and demand alternatives”, 2014)"

Link:

https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/find/find-type-resource/accessible-course-content-open-educational-resources

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Amyluv's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.courseware oa.prices oa.economics_of oa.books

Date tagged:

11/02/2017, 21:37

Date published:

11/02/2017, 17:37