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Tips for Using Open Educational Resources to Reduce Textbook Costs in Computing and IT Courses

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Intelligent Computing

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 285))

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In this paper, we describe tips for employing open educational resources (OERs) to reduce and most often eliminate textbook costs in information technology (IT) courses. These techniques and resources have been mined from our fifteen years of experience of including OERs in our IT online and face-to-face courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to describing them, we provide our outcomes and implementation advice for OERs.

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  1. Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, 30060, USA

    Richard Halstead-Nussloch & Rebecca Rutherfoord

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  1. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan

    Kohei Arai

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Halstead-Nussloch, R., Rutherfoord, R. (2021). Tips for Using Open Educational Resources to Reduce Textbook Costs in Computing and IT Courses. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Computing. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80129-8_39

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