OER Digest – June 18, 2020

From Mo Nyamweya, SPARC | Volume 108 | June 18, 2020

With updates from Nicole Allen

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NEW REPORT: U.S. PIRG has released a new study titled Fixing the Broken Textbook Market, SecondEdition, a follow-up to their 2014 survey, which found that 65% of students skip buying textbooks because of their high cost. The new study, which is based on a survey of over 4,000 students across 83 college campuses, shows that despite the supposedly lower cost of access codes versus hard copy textbooks, students still report skipping buying textbooks at the same rate as 2014. In addition, nearly 1 in 5 students reports having skipped buying an access code. Read more “OER Digest – June 18, 2020” →

OER Digest – June 4th, 2020

From Kaitlyn Vitez and Cailyn Nagle | Volume 107 | June 4th, 2020

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BLACK LIVES MATTER: We stand in solidarity with those protesting the killing of George Floyd, those whose right to free speech and peaceful protest has been attacked, and with all victims of systemic violence against Black communities. We encourage you to check out resources at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and consider sharing a recent webinar on “Working Towards Antiracism and Culturally Responsive Teaching in Open Education” by Creative Commons USA and New America (to be posted to YouTube in the next few days) with educators on your campus. If you know of other openly-licensed anti-racism resources, please share them with our team at oerdigest@gmail.com so that we can include them in our next edition. Read more “OER Digest – June 4th, 2020” →