Patty Goedl, an accounting professor at the University of Cincinnati at Clermont, spent three years developing her own textbook to mitigate student costs.
Textbooks can be costly, particularly for advanced-level and specialized courses. To reduce this burden and increase access to the fundamentals of physical chemistry, UIC’s Preston Snee wrote and released a new, open-source textbook available online for free.
As a new semester kicks off, UBC students are handed not just syllabuses, but also a hefty textbook bill. However, a quiet shift towards Open Education Resources (OERs) is underway on campus…
Nowadays, anyone willing to learn can find several #opensource learning resources online.
Check out this professor who wrote an open-access book for her students. All teachers should be like this!
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2023/09/20/open-source-textbook-aids-college-student-learning
Institutions should not charge for education; knowledge was never meant to be restricted.
Open-source learning resources can help make STEM subjects more accessible to disadvantaged learners.
Open-source learning resources are the future of education!