October 14, 2014
The USM’s Center for Academic Innovation (CAI) shares the USM Student Council’s (USMSC) are collaborating on the Maryland Open Source Textbook (MOST) initiative, which is providing interested faculty with opportunities to explore the feasibility of adopting open-source materials for use in their courses.
September 11, 2014
The average American student pays about $1,200 a year for books alone. An experiment currently underway is turning up some hopeful results. In effect, professors would be encouraged to put class material online instead of charging students hundreds of dollars for a printed textbook.
September 9, 2014
BALTIMORE — An experiment with open-source online textbooks at several Maryland universities last semester yielded promising results, and officials are preparing to expand the program this fall.
