California’s community colleges roll out $115 million in state funds to help campuses create no-cost digital class material.
that’s helping community colleges create more classes that don’t require expensive textbooks.
“What I think would be wise is to empower students to know in advance what things will cost as they are navigating, as they are making registration decisions and enrollment decisions,” he said. “It's really important to the whole open educational resource effort that California gets this right,” said Michelle Pilati, the Academic Senate faculty coordinator for CCC's Open Educational Resources Initiative.
Advocates say there are ongoing costs to update the free texts but that updating would cost less than the up-front costs to pay faculty and advisors to create the material in the first place.— Michelle Pilati, faculty coordinator for the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative
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