After talking with a former student about the Affordable Learning Exchange program, Communications professor Mary Sterenberg was interested in getting rid of the required book for her COMM 3334 class. With ALX’s help, Sterenberg replaced the...
Did you know that the cost of textbooks has skyrocketed 1,041 percent since 1977? In fact, a typical Ohio State student spends an average of $1,000 on course materials each year.
Let's change that.
There are ways to incorporate affordable course content into your courses,...
Communications 2321 instructor Jasmine Roberts wanted to take a more practical approach to her teaching than she could using traditional course materials. With the Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) Exploration Grant, Roberts had the chance to...
On Feb. 10 we kicked off the Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) Discovery Series, and celebrated the first round of projects setting out to save students $1M in the first year.
Are you interested in open educational resources or OER? Curious about how to reduce textbook costs for your students? Perplexed by copyright and creative commons licensing? If you said yes to any of these questions, the ALX Discovery...
The issue? Textbooks are expensive. The solution? Replacing textbooks and other course materials with quality open and low-cost alternatives. Last year we introduced you to David Ernst and the Open Textbook Library . Now, meet the first participants...
With 4.2 million+ visitors, 3.9 million+ downloads, 1.9 million+ streams and 902,598 subscriptions since 2012, Ohio State is the leading provider of open public content in iTunes U. Our professors continued to offer free, high-quality courses to learners around the globe in fiscal year 2015,...
