Research Guides: Affordable Learning Georgia: Overview

WHY AFFORDABLE LEARNING GEORGIA (ALG)

High Prices Prevent College Students from Buying Assigned Textbooks
Survey Finds Soaring Costs, Publisher Tactics May Jeopardize Success in Classes

A major focus of Complete College Georgia is to provide access to affordable learning resources including textbooks for students and open education resources for faculty.

A Cover to Cover Solution
How Open Textbooks are the Path to Textbook Affordability
ALG website
A website which describes the University System of Georgia (USG) initiative to promote student success by providing affordable textbook alternatives.

GOALS OF ALG

Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) is designed to:

promote student success by providing affordable textbook alternatives
help USG faculty and staff identify lower-cost, electronic, free, and Open Educational Resources, building on the cost-effective subscription resources provided by GALILEO and the USG libraries
partner with California State University-MERLOT service

NUTS AND BOLTS OF ALG

ALG was developed to provide a "one-stop service to help USG faculty and staff identify lower-cost, electronic, free, and Open Educational Resources, building on the cost-effective subscription resources provided by GALILEO and the USG libraries". ALG is a California State University-MERLOT partner benefit service. The ALG website offers information on:

Free Course Materials
Free Online Courses
Free eTextbooks
Lower Cost Publishers' Materials
Library Resources
Customizing & Authoring Content

AFFORDABLE LEARNING GEORGIA RESOURCES

Grantee Information Center
Deadlines, Final Reports and other information for grantees
ALG Featured Speaker Series
Once a month, join Affordable Learning Georgia to hear from recent Affordable Materials Grant completers about their affordability projects, the challenges they faced, and the results they saw on implementation.

Affordable Learning Georgia

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