Scholarly Kitchen: Update on OhioLINK’s Affordable Textbooks Initiative

Preliminary data shows the value of a hybrid approach to affordable learning. The takeaway? OER results in biggest cost reduction for students; IA scales faster to reduce costs for more students across more disciplines in more institutions.

Feb 11, 2020

OhioLINK is determining how it can support the sustainability of the OER materials created through the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative. We will continue to gather cost savings data. In addition, we are working to identify barriers to OER adoption and make recommendations for practical ways to address them. We'll continue to negotiate and monitor inclusive access agreements with commercial textbook publishers as long as those agreements provide value to our students.

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/02/11/guest-post-an-update-to-ohiolinks-affordable-textbooks-initiative/?informz=1

Note: Numbers for Inclusive Access came from publishers. Numbers for OER came from internal analysis.

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