“We’ve been trying to get faculty to understand that open textbooks exist, and they’re out there, and they can be freely distributed, and they’re quality textbooks just like the textbooks they already use,” said David Ernst, academic technology director for the College of Education and Human Development. He was interviewed recently by KARE 11 for a story on how “Open textbooks could mean more money for college students.”
Ernst, who led the development of the college’s open textbook catalog, also explains how open licensing works and how easy it is to find more than 140 open textbooks that faculty can adapt and use for their courses.
“And these textbooks tend to be for high enrollment courses, where the impact would be huge — introductory courses that freshmen take, that thousands of students here at the University take,” said Ernst.
See the KARE 11 story below. Also see Ernst’s KSTP interview about use of educational technology in teaching and learning.