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PDX Open: Reducing Student Textbook Costs
The Problem
Textbook costs
Student’s average budget
The pay wall barrier to commercial online textbooks
Solutions
UNESCO OER definition
Models
Writing Spaces
Also available through institution’s IR
SCHOLARWorks@ Grand Valley State University textbooks
SUNY Open Textbooks
Our proposal
Our model
Library provides
Benefits