{"id":445,"date":"2016-11-01T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/?p=445"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T15:41:27","slug":"the-other-open-access-debate-educational-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/h2oharvard\/2016\/11\/01\/the-other-open-access-debate-educational-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Other” Open-Access Debate: Educational Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

An engaging article<\/a> on\u00a0open education resources was recently tweeted<\/a> by Google CEO Eric Schmidt – in it\u00a0the authors explore the burden that the rising cost of textbooks have placed on students, the ways it hinders their learning and the extent – or lack thereof – that the open-access movement has focused on rectifying this.<\/p>\n

Expensive, underutilized textbooks often build a barrier between both the instructor and students. The students begrudge the expectation that they purchase a pricy text that feels more a boondoggle than essential resourceand the students and the educational success, with many students purchasing older versions of the texts to save money or deciding to not purchase one at all.<\/p>\n

As the article notes, many STEM texts are predominantly composed of public research, but nonetheless carry price-tags of $250 dollars or more. Similarly, legal textbooks, or ‘casebooks,’\u00a0being composed almost entirely of public materials has led H2O to focus on them: as much of the text is already public domain but nonetheless published in texts costing\u00a0$150 or more, incorporating them into an open, flexible digital platform was a\u00a0foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

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Read more on open education resources here<\/a>\u00a0– then\u00a0check out H2O<\/a> here!<\/p>\n

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