College students in Rhode Island have saved nearly $900K on textbooks in a year

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-09-30

Summary:

"This week marks the one-year anniversary of a statewide initiative to increase access to openly licensed textbooks at Rhode Island's colleges and universities.

The RI Open Textbook Initiative, which was proposed by Gov. Gina Raimondo, challenges the state’s higher education institutions to save students $5 million over five years with openly licensed textbooks."

Link:

http://edscoop.com/college-students-save-thousands-with-the-rhode-island-open-textbook-initiative

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.oer oa.textbooks oa.usa oa.usa.ri oa.benefits oa.economic_impact oa.books

Date tagged:

09/30/2017, 11:50

Date published:

09/30/2017, 07:19