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Affordable Learning Solutions Community: CSU's Systemwide Strategy

The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students. CSU students typically pay over $800 per year for their books. By reducing their expenses, we believe we can provide better access to a quality CSU learning experience. We are launching this campaign in 2010 and will be continuously improving the services to CSU faculty and...

Keywords:: sharing practices, open textbooks, Textbook affordability, Open Educational Resources, digital books, OER, library resources, eBooks

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Academic Support Services / Faculty Development / Teaching Strategies

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Material Type:: Collection
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 24, 2010
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 13, 2017
Author:: Gerry Hanley, MERLOT/ California State University, Office of the Chancellor
Submitter:: Gerry Hanley
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: Website

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Language:: English
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norbert boruett (Health Care Professional)

11 years ago

The author puts forward a strong case on the cost of buying text books in an American scenario. The situation is replicable in other developed countries and certainly worse in the developing world.

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