Key to student success is access to course materials – textbooks in particular – but the rising cost of them makes it difficult for some Georgia State students to afford them. Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard has urged faculty to find ways to reduce textbook costs, and the university continues to make progress: more than 60 percent of undergraduate courses at GSU now use low- or no-cost textbooks.

The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Online Education has excellent resources to help faculty expand affordability and open opportunity, and Cyntoria Johnson, Faculty Associate for Teaching Effectiveness and faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, shares some practices, tips and examples of how GSU is putting this effort into action.

Watch the video below. For more information about open-educational resources (OERs) and other resources that can be useful in developing affordable course materials, visit CETLOE’s Open Resources, Open Futures web page here.

– Jeremy Craig, Communications Manager for the Office of the Provost