CALPIRG at UCLA members discuss free alternatives to textbooks | Daily Bruin

"A research study on two- and four-year colleges showed that using openly licensed resources in place of textbooks could save students more than $100 per course. Colleges that switch to open educational resources would save students nationwide $1.5 billion a year in course material costs, according to a study released by the California Public Interest Research Group on Friday. OERs are educational materials available in the public domain and databases such as OER Commons, a public online library of textbooks, lecture notes, assignments and other course materials. CALPIRG held a press conference Friday with student government leaders to discuss the issue of affordable textbooks...."