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Tips for Sources of Cost-Free and Open Educational Resources to Reduce Textbook Costs in IT Courses

Published: 26 September 2019 Publication History

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We describe sources of cost-free and open educational resources (OERs) to reduce and most often eliminate textbook costs in IT courses mined in fifteen years of experience using them in our IT online and face-to-face undergraduate and graduate courses.

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  • (2021)Usage and Performance of Open Educational Resources among State Universities of Tamil Nadu Research ScholarsInternational Journal of Management and Humanities10.35940/ijmh.I1311.06510215:10(1-8)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2021

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SIGITE '19: Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIG Conference on Information Technology Education
September 2019
206 pages
ISBN:9781450369213
DOI:10.1145/3349266
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Published: 26 September 2019

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  1. cost reduction.
  2. it education
  3. open educational resources

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  • (2021)Usage and Performance of Open Educational Resources among State Universities of Tamil Nadu Research ScholarsInternational Journal of Management and Humanities10.35940/ijmh.I1311.06510215:10(1-8)Online publication date: 30-Jun-2021

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