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Perhaps the worst part of heading back to school and entering a whole new set of classes is paying hundreds of dollars for textbooks.
Many post-secondary students in B.C. can breath a sigh of relief thanks to the Open Textbook Project. The provincial initiative offers more than 150 textbooks online for free.
Since 2012, when the project was rolled out, it has saved at least 15,600 students over $2 million overall.
The most popular first- and second-year textbooks for math and business are available, as well as books for a range of classes in technical subjects.
"When professors adopt an open textbook, we also adopt a more responsible
teaching philosophy,” said UBC and Okanagan College professor Arthur Gill Green, “Open textbooks offer much more than cost-savings, they offer the ability to both share and create knowledge with our colleagues and students.
“I think that instructional shift is among the most important powers of open textbooks."
This year, more than 170 faculty members at 23 public post-secondary institutions in B.C. are taking part in the project.
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