Palo Alto College Projects $225,000 savings from Saylor OER Textbook Adoption | Saylor Academy

"We want to share some great news out of San Antonio, Texas. Palo Alto College, part of the Alamo College family, has adopted an openly licensed textbook that was originally published as part of our Open Textbook Challenge. Professor John Dunn, who serves as Department Chair, informed us that a faculty review committee officially adopted Information Systems for Business and Beyond by David T. Bourgeois, Ph.D., as the primary source for theory information in the college’s introductory computer courses (COSC1301, BCIS1305, and ITSC1301) and one upper level course (ITSC1309) starting in fall of 2015 and continuing for at least the next two years ..."