Title
No-cost learning material: Perspectives from industrial and systems engineering students
Department
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Abstract
Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) is an initiative that began in 2014, which supported faculty when transforming their previously required textbooks to low-cost, no-cost textbooks. The goal was to help reduce the financial burden on students in their pursuit of a college education. In this study, the researchers developed no-cost textbooks for two undergraduate industrial and systems engineering courses. Both quantitative and qualitative measures are used to assess the effectiveness of the textbook transformation and students’ experience of no-cost learning material in the Industrial and Systems Engineering program. The responses were overwhelmingly positive with respect to the no-cost textbooks in both courses.
Journal Title
Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
Journal ISSN
21583595
Volume
21
Issue
10
First Page
215
Last Page
225
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.33423/jhetp.v21i10.4636