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

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