Presentation
Seeking Alternatives to High-cost Textbooks: A Case Study of the UMass Amherst Open Education Initiative
AMICAL
(2014)
Abstract
The high cost and lack of availability of commercial print textbooks is a major concern to both students and their parents. To address these concerns, the Provost's Office and the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst launched the Open Education Initiative in the Spring of 2011, having saved over $750,000 to date. This model has an implementation strategy that is easy for others to adopt.
Disciplines
Publication Date
February 11, 2014
Citation Information
Jay Schafer and Marilyn S Billings. "Seeking Alternatives to High-cost Textbooks: A Case Study of the UMass Amherst Open Education Initiative" AMICAL (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/57/