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Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Business with Linda Williams
“...We have seen an increase in overall student success, with 10% less students dropping and a 6% increase in students finishing a course with a C or better…” Lumen’s Faculty Roundtable [...]
Cerritos College
The Business Administration Department at Cerritos College began turning to open educational resources because faculty members saw many students struggling when they could not afford to buy expensive textbooks. After OER led to demonstrable improvement in [...]
Tidewater Community College
In 2013, Tidewater Community College, located in coastal Virginia, became the first accredited institution in the U.S. to offer a degree in which students pay nothing for required textbooks. Dubbed the “Z-Degree” (for zero textbook [...]
Students Save Thousands Using OER
Providing academic research to back up claims about cost savings attributed to open educational resources, this study documents the textbook cost to students before and after OER adoption at eight institutions in a variety [...]
OER Impacts Student Success Metrics
This extensive, multi-institution study provides evidence that students in OER courses perform as well as or better than students in courses using commercial textbooks with regard to withdrawal rates, passing with a C or better, [...]
Using OER Can Boost Tuition Revenue
At Virginia's Tidewater Community College (TCC), OER courses in TCC's "Z-Degree" program have lower withdrawal rates compared to those using commercial materials. Students in "Z-courses" also register for more credits than their counterparts who are [...]