TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hilton III, John Levi
AU  - Gaudet, Donna
AU  - Clark, Phil
AU  - Robinson, Jared
AU  - Wiley, David 
TI  - The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department
PY  - 2013///
KW  - Open educational resources
KW  - Community,
KW  - College,
KW  - Department
N1  - https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v14i4.1523
N2  - The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one community college�s adoption of a collection of open resources across five different mathematics classes. During the 2012 fall semester, 2,043 students in five different courses used these open access resources. We present a comparison between the previous two years in terms of the number of students who withdrew from the courses and the number that completed the courses with a C grade or better. Our analysis suggests that while there was likely no change in these educational outcomes, students who have access to open access materials collectively saved a significant amount of money. Students and faculty were surveyed as to their perceptions of these materials and the results were generally favorable
ER  -