Abstract
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.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Best Value Schools. Understanding the rising costs of higher education, 07 August 2020. https://www.bestvalueschools.com/understanding-the-rising-costs-of-higher-education/
Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, College tuition and fees increase 63 percent since January 2006, 07 August 2020. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/college-tuition-and-fees-increase-63-percent-since-january-2006.htm
Student PIRGS Reports on Reducing Textbook Costs- listed, 07 August 2020. https://studentpirgs.org/article-type/report/
Jenkins, J., Hannans, J.: Milked: California State University Channel Islands Offers the CSU’s First “Z-Majors” Educause Review, 07 August 2020. https://er.educause.edu/blogs/2019/2/milked-california-state-university-channel-islands-offers-the-csus-first-z-majors
Quality Matters Rubric and Standards, 07 August 2020. https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/rubric-standards
Creative Commons Licenses, 07 August 2020. https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/
ACM Digital Library, 07 August 2020. https://www.acm.org/publications/digital-library
IEEE Xplore, 07 August 2020. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
Google publication database, 07 August 2020. https://ai.google/research/pubs/
IBM TechDocs Library, 07 August 2020. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/Web/Intro
Microsoft Document Library - Whitepapers etc., 07 August 2020. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/
Oracle Wiki- Whitepapers, 07 August 2020. http://www.oracle-wiki.net/whitepapers
USA Government Works (copyright terms), 10 August 2020. https://www.usa.gov/government-works
NIST Cybersecurity Framework, 10 August 2020. https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework
NIST Advanced IT Networks Technology, 10 August 2020. https://www.nist.gov/itl/antd
U.S. Government portal on data, 10 August 2020. https://www.data.gov/
U.S. Government portal on code and programming, 10 August 2020. https://www.code.gov/
U.S. Government portal on usability and HCI, 10 August 2020. https://www.usability.gov/
U.S. Government portal on web design and services, 10 August 2020. https://designsystem.digital.gov/
EDUCAUSE main, 10 August 2020. https://www.educause.edu/
Wikipedia, 10 August 2020. https://www.wikipedia.org/
GALILEO open learning materials, 12 January 2021. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/
Conway, P., Bowman, E.M.: SI-410 ethics and information technology, 12 August 2020. https://open.umich.edu/find/open-educational-resources/information/si-410-ethics-information-technology
Defense Acquisition University Press. Systems engineering fundamentals, 12 August 2020. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a606327.pdf
Wikipedia article on README, 12 August 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/README
Wikipedia article on FAQ, 12 August 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAQ
Wikipedia article on RETAIN, 13 August 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RETAIN
Searching the IBM database for similar problems, 13 August 2020. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_9.0.0/com.ibm.mq.tro.doc/q040230_.htm
Wikipedia article on Kano’s Model, 13 August 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
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
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80129-8_39
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-80128-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-80129-8
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)