[Athen] Data on amount spent on textbooks in higher education

Cassie Kilroy Thompson mthomps2 at umbc.edu
Fri Mar 30 08:08:42 PDT 2018


Karen, I don’t have the figures at my fingertips, but I know that the
Creative Commons organization that is helping to lead the way to replace
textbooks with free Open Educational Resources (OER) has provided those
amounts. Google OER and college textbook costs and you might find a link
or two.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:18 AM Karlen Communications <
info at karlencommunications.com> wrote:


> Hi Everyone:

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> Does anyone know of a site that identifies the amount spent on textbooks

> for those in higher education/colleges/universities?

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> I know the Access Board cited that in the US academic institutions spend

> $79 Billion with a B for LMS’s per year. I need to have a figure for

> textbooks.

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> If anyone can break down the amount for LMS’s to higher education, that

> would be great as well.

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> Cheers, Karen

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