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Finding courses with no cost for materials
密歇根州立大学丹佛 faculty can mark their courses when they have no cost for materials or a low cost (<$40) for materials.
Follow the instructions below to find these options in the course schedule:
- 登录到您的 学生账户.
- Click either Add/Drop/Withdraw Classes (if you might be ready to register for classes) or Browse Classes (if you’re just looking)
- 搜索 for classes of interest by department and even course number. An advanced search option is also available.
- You will see a schedule of classes that match your search criteria. The schedule includes a column of attributes on the right-hand side. Rows that have “低 cost materials $40 or less” should have course materials that cost $40 or less. Rows that have the icon with “No-cost for materials” should not have any additional materials cost for the course. An example of part of the Spring 2022 schedule for Spanish courses is shown below.
一旦你注册了一门课程, you can email the faculty member who is teaching it for more detailed information about required materials for the course.
OER学生常见问题解答
Three places where you can look for online textbooks to complement your studies are:
开放Stax (莱斯大学)
- 开放Stax books are truly comparable to commercial texts in quality because they go through the same extensive development process. The difference is that philanthropic donors cover the cost (donors have no control over the textbook content, which is faculty written and extensively peer-reviewed)
- Books are available for free as PDFs and online, optional print copies are available through Amazon or, 具体课程, the bookstore (~$40-$65 for a hardcopy book)
- Limited selection of courses available (mostly introductory level)
开放教育网络 开放教科书图书馆
- A referatory to over 900 different textbooks, including all the 开放Stax options plus many, 更多的
- All books in the 开放教科书图书馆 are in a textbook format and are used at one or more U.S. 高等教育机构
- Libretexts is site that contains textbook type material in an online format
- Hover over “Explore the Libraries” in the middle of the Libretexts主页 and pick the area that matches the discipline you are looking for, then click on Bookshelves to explore titles in your field
- Ann Diker in Nutrition heavily adapted an Introduction to 在Libretexts营养书 that is now being used in all sections of NUT 2040 at 密歇根州立大学丹佛.
- You can print content from Libretexts
If you have a professor using free materials or low cost materials, let them know you appreciate the work they’ve put into developing their course! If having no costs for materials in a course is a benefit for you, 让你的老师知道这一点, 太.
OER stands for 开放教育资源, which are education materials that can be freely downloaded, 编辑, and shared to better serve all students. 他们经常有一个 知识共享许可 rather than traditional copyright to clearly show that they can be freely shared.
Want to learn more about OER in your courses?
电子邮件太阳城娱乐Students willing to share stories about course materials costs, 把你的兴趣发给艾米丽·雷根, 密歇根州立大学丹佛 OER Coordinator and faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
