Affordable textbooks & alternative learning materials for Ohio college students
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Ohio Digital Bookshelf Project
The Ohio Digital Bookshelf Project is a pilot project that aims to provide quality textbook options for faculty and better learning outcomes, while also saving students money. Find out more.
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Free College Textbooks for Ohio Students!
A new joint pilot program between the University System of Ohio and Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide, will allow 1,000 Ohio students to receive digital textbooks for FREE.
Some Core Facts:
Some Core Facts:
- The 1,000 licenses for digital texts and study aids from Flat World Knowledge were purchased in bulk by the Ohio Board of Regents to encourage faculty to use innovative digital learning materials in…
Posted by University System of Ohio on March 9, 2011 at 1:55pm
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Use of online booksellers
I attend the University of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College. I wanted to obtain the ISBN number of the textbooks I needed. I went to the bookstore and asked to look at the books. To my surprise,…Continue
Started by Theresa Warren Jul 22, 2010.
Pilot Program for Course Material Rental
My good friends at the Instructional Technology Council sent this interesting information to me. Are any Ohio colleges or universities looking at this?Pilot Program for Course Material RentalOffice…Continue
Started by Louis Mays Jul 15, 2010.
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2011 Faculty Innovator Award Winners!
The winners of the University System of Ohio’s 2011 Faculty Innovator Awards have been announced. The following faculty received awards after a panel of independent reviewers determined their practices were innovative and saved students money. Their work and stories provide the model to support adoption of materials like these across every institution in Ohio.
- Shu Schiller, Ph.D., Wright State University
- Raymond Frost, Ph.D., and Lauren Kenyo, Instructor, Ohio University
- Donald Gabriel, Jennifer Garnes, Amanda Hanley, Jennifer Kucera and Susan Nagorney, Cuyahoga Community College
- Cheryl Ward, Ph.D., University of Akron
- Lauren Cummins, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Youngstown State University
- Anna Dollár, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Miami University
- Anand Jeyaraj, Ph.D., Wright State University
- Peter Anderson, Ph.D. and Katharine Flores, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
- Jim Anderson, Clark State Community College
- Charles Ginn, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Insert This!
When you're talking about saving students money on textbooks or using Open Educational Resources, it always helps to have concrete examples.
One of the best examples in Ohio is the Stitz-Zeager Free College Algebra Textbook project, which is broken down into simple "dollars and cents" terms on this handy, printable insert.
(Note: Okay, so it looks like a bookmark. In this digital age, we're calling it an insert. If you happen to insert it in a printed book, we can't stop you.)
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