Part one - OER adoption in an American History course: Impact on student outcomes and behaviors and relation to institutional metrics
| Published | April 2019 |
| Conference | Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2019, Recasting the Narrative Pages 249-255 |
| Country | United 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 at | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Canada (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 CA) |
| URL | http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2019/OERAdoptioninanAmericanHistoryCourse.pdf |
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