In this episode, we talk about the terrible price of textbooks and how to avoid them, including Open Educational Resources. Sharing their experience with Open Educational Resources, you’ll hear from three special guests, Gurleen Kaur, UASU Vice President Academic, and Sarah Shaughnessy and Patti Sherbaniuk, UofA Librarians.

Links from the episode:

Open Educational Resources at the University of Alberta Library:

https://www.library.ualberta.ca/open-educational-resources

Be Book Smart:

https://www.su.ualberta.ca/services/bebooksmart/instructors/

Course Materials at the University of Alberta Library:

https://www.library.ualberta.ca/course-materials/reserve-course-materials

Hanson, Melanie. “Average Cost of College Textbooks” EducationData.org, July 15, 2022,

https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-textbooks

Brown, Mark. (2017). What Canadian university students can expect to pay for books. Macleans. Retrieved from:

https://www.macleans.ca/education/most-expensive-books/