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SUMMARY:Open Textbooks and Educational Resources: New Approaches to Af
 fordable Education
DESCRIPTION:High college costs will keep as many as 2.4 million low an
 d moderate-income college-qualified high school graduates from attendi
 ng college during this decade. For those who do attend college, financ
 ial stresses are the main reason that 46 percent of students do not gr
 aduate with any credential within six years. College textbook and cour
 se material expenses are a significant part of college costs. The Coll
 ege Board estimates that the average student paid $1,200 on books and 
 course materials during the 2012-13 academic year. These high costs pu
 t student success at risk.\n \nDr. David Ernst will describe efforts 
 in the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Develo
 pment to improve college access, affordability, and success by reducin
 g the impact of textbook and course material costs for students. Dr. E
 rnst spent the last two years identifying barriers to the adoption of 
 open textbooks and finding ways to help institutions and faculty overc
 ome those barriers. He created the Open Academics textbook catalog (ht
 tp://open.umn.edu) in April, 2012, as a single source for faculty to f
 ind open textbooks. The catalog has had over 70,000 visits from instru
 ctors in 173 countries. Dr. Ernst will also describe the Digital Cours
 e Pack project, which leveraged digital content already-licensed by th
 e Libraries to create digital course packs that were free or reduced c
 ost for students. Lastly, Dr. Ernst will explain how all schools can r
 educe textbook and course materials costs by leveraging the same tools
  successfully used by the University of Minnesota. A live web stream 
 of the presentation on can be found at the following URL: http://www.k
 altura.com/tiny/pvhfc\n\nFor more information visit http://legacy.open
 accessweek.org/events/open-textbooks-and-educational-resources-new-app
 roaches-to
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131023T140000
DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131023T153000
CATEGORIES:open, education, presentation
LOCATION:Stewart Center Room 314. Purdue University, West Lafayette, I
 ndiana
WEBSITE:http://www.lib.purdue.edu/openaccess/oaweek
URL:http://www.lib.purdue.edu/openaccess/oaweek
CONTACT:6175433297
ORGANIZER;CN="David Scherer":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/
 DavidScherer
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