University Showcase 3/17 8a: The expense of going to college has . And even if students get scholarships or financial aid to cover tuition, there are still other expenses, like books. on textbooks in the United States. Those who cannot afford to buy or rent the books may fall behind in their education. Hard copy books can cost as much as $400, with an average price between $80 and $150. But there鈥檚 a growing alternative: open educational resources. These are teaching and learing resources that are openly licensed and freely available on the internet. Teachers can also adapt them for a specific student population and even remix the materials and share them.
On this episode we鈥檒l look at how open educational resources are evolving at the University of New Mexico.
GUESTS:
- instructor, First Year Experience Program
- , director of Academic Communities and a foundational math coordinator
- , lecturer, Department of Economics
- , Open Educational Resources librarian
- , distinguished professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and director of the Center for Stable Isotopes
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