%0	Journal Article
%A	Jenkins, J. Jacob
%A	Sánchez, Luis A.
%A	Schraedley, Megan A. K.
%A	Hannans, Jaime
%A	Navick, Nitzan
%A	Young, Jade
%C	United States, North America
%D	2020
%G	English
%J	Journal of Interactive Media in Education
%K	OER
%K	open education resources
%K	student equity
%K	redistributive justice
%K	Hispanic Serving Institution
%P	3
%R	10.5334/jime.549
%T	Textbook Broke: Textbook Affordability as a Social Justice Issue
%V	2020
%X	In light of rising textbook prices, open education resources (OER) have been shown to decrease non-tuition costs, while simultaneously increasing academic access, student performance, and time-to-graduation rates. Yet very little research to date has explored OER’s specific impact on those who are presumed to benefit most from this potential: historically underserved students. This reality has left a significant gap of understanding in the current body of literature, resulting in calls for more empirically-based examinations of OER through a social justice lens. For each of these reasons, this study explored the impact of OER and textbook pricing among racial/ethnic minority students, low-income students, and first-generation college students at a four-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in Southern California. Drawing upon more than 700 undergraduate surveys, our univariate, bivariate and multivariate results revealed textbook costs to be a substantial barrier for the vast majority of students. However, those barriers were even more significant among historically underserved college students; thus, confirming textbook affordability as a redistributive justice issue, and positing OER as a potential avenue for realizing a more socially just college experience.
%8	05/2020
%*	yes
%>	http://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/archive/549-4529-1-PB.pdf