Open forum on open textbooks at Morgan Library Sept. 22 | SOURCE

"An open forum on open textbooks will be held 2:30 -4 p.m. Sept. 22 in the Morgan Library Event Hall. Instructors and students will appreciate this exciting opportunity to learn about and discuss open textbooks and how their adoption by instructors can lower textbook costs for students. Open textbooks are full, real textbooks, used by many faculty across the country, and licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed. Open textbooks can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide instructors with content that can be customized for their course. This open forum will be presented by David Ernst and Sarah Faye Cohen of the Open Textbook Network, an alliance of higher education institutions committed to improving access, affordability, and academic success through the use of open textbooks ..."