Open Access Textbooks

Beth McMurtrie reports on the quality concerns professors have about open access textbooks.

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Free Digital Textbooks

Dian Schaffhauser lists fifteen sites offering free digital textbooks .

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Open Source Textbooks

Bob Brown reports a Brigham Young University study indicating that open source textbooks may improve course completion rates.

The study by Fischer, Hilton, Robinson and Wiley (2015) observed a student population of 15,727 students at ten universities, of whom 4,909 used open source materials. There were few disadvantages from using open source materials.

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Test Proctoring

Jeffery Young reports on new tech developments seen at the EDUCAUSE Conference . Key new technologies involve automated exam proctoring and open source textbooks.

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Textbooks

Robert Talbert writes about " The Hidden Costs of Unsolicited Textbooks: A View from the Mailroom."

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Free Online Textbooks

Free Online Texts are one of the options being considered to lower the cost of education, according to an article by Jake New. The author earlier reported that the content of online textbooks are under scrutiny from print publishers, who are countering with lawsuits at any hint of plagiarism

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