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Bring OER Awareness to SBVC
Individual students, student clubs, and the Associated Student Government can have an impact on faculty use of open educational resources. While professors are the disciplinary experts and therefore have academic freedom to choose instructional materials, most professors cite textbook costs as one of the main if not the number one factor when selecting textbooks. When students make their voices heard, this lets faculty, administrators, and California legislators who fund public colleges and universities know that lowering the cost of textbooks is an important priority which deserves institutional commitment.
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For More Information
Open Textbook Alliance https://opentextbookalliance.org/
Student Government Toolkit
https://opentextbookalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/OTA-Toolkit.pdf
Student PIRGs
https://studentpirgs.org/open-textbooks/
Right to Research Coalition https://www.righttoresearch.org
SPARC
https://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-education
College Board
https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing
U.S. Government Accountability Office
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368 and
https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-05-806
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