Final OER Seminar Reflection

  1. Textbooks are challenging for students because they are expensive and heavy to carry around all day in school. Also, throughout the semester the book is barely being used.
  2. One way OER addresses these challenges is cutting back on the prices of textbooks. One way they failed is that we still have to carry heavy textbooks around in school.
  3. Yes we should give evaluation on textbooks for the same reason we evaluate professors at the end of the semester. To give feedbacks and to understand what is working and what is not working. To help us with our competency and to prepare the next students who are planning on using the textbook.
  4. If I was a professor I will think about the price of the textbook, the edition of the textbook and lots of practice tests and quizzes within the textbook.
  5. One important thing I learned about this seminar is that we have a voice to change the way textbooks are being used and sold, and it starts with the people in this seminar.