Exploring Faculty Experiences of Open Textbook Adoption

• In Event: DELT / TED - Open Textbook & Twitter
  In Concurrent Session: DELT - Open Textbook Adoption

Short Description

The price of new college textbook had an increase of 82% between the years 2002 and 2012 (Student PIRGs, 2014). To overcome high price problem of commercial textbooks, freely accessible open textbooks have been published by institutions such as OpenStax and the State University of New York (SUNY) libraries. To this end, most of the studies have explored financial benefits of open textbook adoption. This qualitative study will focus on faculty experiences with open textbook adoption by conducting multiple in-depth interviews per participants.

Authors

• Presenter: Ozgur Ozdemir, Indiana University

• Presenter: Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University