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Abstract | ||
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The growing tuition has placed a large financial burden on many college students. High cost of textbooks adds to the problem that may cause students to delay or withdraw their education. Another problem of many current textbooks is their relevancy and currency. This is particularly notable in the computing and technology areas. In this project, we were pioneering the practice to use no-cost learning materials department-wide. A team made up of four faculty members, an instructional designer, and a librarian looked at collaborative ways to select, organize, and integrate publicly accessible information and transform the selected resources into instructionally rigorous free learning materials for four database related courses in the Information Technology curriculum. The team developed surveys and other assessment material to evaluate the educational effectiveness of using no-cost instructional materials in lieu of costly textbooks. The approach and resulted materials were tested in classes over a one-year period. This paper will discuss the study, background of the costs of textbooks, and present the assessment results of the four no-cost learning material courses. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1145/2978192.2978228 | SIGITE/RIIT |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Computer science,Information technology,It education,Knowledge management,Curriculum,Pedagogy,Instructional design,Currency | Conference | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 3 | 5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebecca H. Rutherfoord | 1 | 38 | 10.98 |
| Svetlana Peltsverger | 2 | 20 | 10.50 |
| Lei Li | 3 | 17 | 5.48 |
| Guangzhi Zheng | 4 | 35 | 5.87 |
| James K. Rutherfoord | 5 | 14 | 4.21 |