University System of Maryland gives 21 grants to promote open-access textbook use #feesmustfall OERs are openly-licensed academic resources such as scholarly articles and texts that professors can reuse, redistribute and reconfigure how they like, Bishop said. These resources are used in place of traditional textbooks and bear no costs for students. Twenty-one faculty members from 12 state universities and community colleges will receive a series of "mini grants" from the University System of Maryland to help them expand open education resources and mitigate student fees. These grants are expected to save students enrolled in these courses $1.3 million in textbook costs for the fall 2017 semester, Bishop added. In the United States, the cost of textbooks has risen 812 percent since 1978, according to a system press release. "We need to get back to the place where instructional materials for students aren't so expensive where we have students making decisions not to purchase textbooks or not to enroll in courses," she said. Something that we really need to look at on South Africa too. Why is the #feesmustfall movement only looking at tuition fees? See http://ift.tt/2oXRmUj
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