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Affordable Learning @ Savannah State University: An initiative to promote student success by providing affordable alternatives to textbooks

Describes how faculty can design, locate and evaluate OERs (free/ affordable) as alternative to textbooks thereby promoting retention, progression, and graduation rate

Content for University System of Georgia Core Courses

Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) is funding and supporting efforts to replace commercial learning materials with no-cost-to-student alternatives, with a focus on the Top 50-enrolled USG lower-division Core Curriculum courses. Go to the ALG Open Textbooks for Top 50 Courses website for suggested open educational resources suitable for USG courses.

Where to Search for Open Educational Resources

Use the drop down menu above to view selected open access resources by subjects (academic departments at SSU). Interested in conducting your own search or learning about other institutions' open textbook projects? Use the links below to navigate to various collections of open educational resources.

Affordable Learning Georgia

California Open Source Textbook Project

College Open Textbooks

Community English Texts (Internet Archives Digital Book Collections)

FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Hathi Trust Digital Library

OER Commons

Open Course Library

Open Culture (Free Educational Media on the Web)

Open Textbook Catalog (University of Minnesota)

Open Textbook Services (MERLOT)

OpenStax College

Project Gutenberg

Saylor Books

Textbook Revolution

Writing Spaces

Asa H. Gordon Library

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