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Open to Open? An Exploration of Textbook Preferences and Strategies to Offset Textbook Costs for Online Versus On-Campus Students

As open textbook initiatives are on the rise, a burgeoning literature has begun exploring student perceptions of openly licensed textbooks used in higher education. Most of this research has lacked consideration of potential differences in the perceptions of online and on-campus students and has failed to include a control group of students using traditional textbooks. […]

Teaching and Learning Experiences with Enhanced Books in Engineering Math and Science Courses

This study focuses on understanding the implementation of three interactive digital products in the first-year foundational courses (General Chemistry, Physics I & II, Calculus I & II) at the Faculty of Engineering, and the perceptions of teaching and learning experiences with those products. The data were gathered from the instructors, students and Distance Education Unit […]

How the university library can help students save money

The university library is a central hub connecting nearly every facet of a campus, and it is supported by students’ tuition. In the library, we asked ourselves what we could do to defray costs for students while also removing financial barriers to reading and learning. The answer lay right at our fingertips, with the millions […]

Higher education, impact, and the Internet: Publishing, politics, and performativity

This paper considers how and why scholarly publishing has changed over the last two decades. It discusses the role of the Internet in overcoming earlier barriers to the rapid circulation of ideas and in opening up new forms of academic communication. While we live in a world increasingly dominated by images, the written word remains […]

Library Perspectives on the EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues

Bringing librarians’ perspectives into the mix of the annual EDUCAUSE Top 10 IT Issuesis a natural focus for EDUCAUSE. The EDUCAUSE Library/IT Partnership Community Group hosts meetings at EDUCAUSE conferences and maintains an online forum for year-long conversation. EDUCAUSE, along with the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), created the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) as a […]

Adobe, Blackboard, Cengage, Coursera, Interfolio, Wiley

Adobe: Adobe Unveils Next Generation Of Video Innovation At IBC 2018 Blackboard: Entrust Datacard And Blackboard Partner To Enhance The ID Card Issuance Process Cengage: New Savings Calculator Helps College Students Decide Best Buy For Course Materials Coursera: Coursera’s CEO On The Evolving Meaning Of ‘MOOC’ Interfolio: New Faculty Management System To Bring ‘$1 Million’ In Savings To University Of […]

Open Access at the Movies

A new documentary film taking aim at for-profit publishers is about to be screened at universities around the world, but will it further the goals of the open-access movement? Inside Higher Ed

Making E-Textbooks More Interactive

Columbus State Community College created a multimedia e-book for English composition students that reduces textbook costs and reimagines the ways learners engage with course material. Campus Technology

Outrage Over University’s $999 Online Textbook

An online textbook priced at almost $1,000 has infuriated students trying to navigate an already confusing textbook marketplace, but Louisiana-Lafayette officials insist they had “good intentions.” Inside Higher Ed

New federal program tackles spiraling costs of college textbooks

College students will keep more money in their pockets thanks to a new US$5 million pilot program approved as part of the $1.3 trillion appropriations bill that President Donald J. Trump signed on March 23. The Conversation 

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