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"Textbooks are so unaffordable because the system overall is just completely broken."
College students are drowning in textbook costs. There's a push in Congress to make them free.
https://www.businessinsider.com/make-college-textbooks-free-congress-2023-3
@JamesGG Following up, through this #JOERHE article
> alarming trend: the impact of OER has been limited because of students not reading assigned textbooks and instructors not actively teaching with them.
> the study suggest that the frequency with which students use required texts, theirattitudes towards textbooks, and how instructors are teaching with OER are important factors in assessing the effectiveness of OER that go beyond cost savings
https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/joerhe/article/view/7201
As we often find out, there's disproportionate attention paid to #OpenTextbooks in #OERs and #OpenEducation generally.
Plus... #InstructorEffect, yet again.
What if it were the point? What if #OEPs were about improving our teaching?
@enkerli Always the right time to recall the words of Robin DeRosa @actualham from 2015 (!):
“Fundamentally, I don't want to be part of a movement that is focused on replacing static, over-priced textbooks with static, free textbooks. Textbooks, if we don't re-theorize them, have generally (just) been repositories for the master's ideas.”
@actualham @JamesGG
Sounds like this blogpost is making the rounds and sparking a renewed discussion in #OpenEducation beyond #OER.
https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/where-have-we-come-from-a-2015-ugh/4809
#HowMightWe move into collective action towards our shared goals? While #OEweek is a celebration of all things OE, there's a generative tension when we bring things in a new context.