Open AccessBook Review: Affordable Course Materials: Electronic Textbooks and Open Educational Resources
Author(s) -
Emma Molls
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.57.3.6609
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , course (navigation) , library science , open educational resources , sociology , political science , media studies , engineering , computer science , history , archaeology , aerospace engineering
Editor Chris Diaz opens this book with a boundary-pushing question: “What if I just bought all the textbooks?” The case studies that follow begin with other daring questions, all searching for an answer to the question of how to reduce student costs through affordable course materials. The nine case studies in the book represent universities from across the United States and a global campus (New York University at Shanghai). Each case study presents a different approach to providing affordable course materials, based on the campus context and student needs.