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Part one - OER adoption in an American History course: Impact on student outcomes and behaviors and relation to institutional metrics
Beile, Penny · deNoyelles, Aimee · Raible, John

PublishedApril 2019
ConferenceAssociation of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2019, Recasting the Narrative
Pages 249-255
CountryUnited States, North America

ABSTRACT
This 2019 ACRL proceeding consists of two parts. The first describes a collaboration between librarians and instructional designers to promote affordable textbooks and includes results of a study investigating the impact of an open textbook adoption on student academic outcomes and behaviors. The second part consists of a case study describing how one librarian has both successfully promoted and supported adoption of affordable course materials with faculty in an academic department.

Keywords affordable textbooks · case study · libraries · OER promotion · OER research

Published atCleveland, Ohio
RefereedYes
RightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Canada (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 CA)
URLhttp://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2019/OERAdoptioninanAmericanHistoryCourse.pdf
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