Comparing Student Learning From and Perceptions of Open and Commercial Textbook Excerpts: A Randomized Experiment

Open textbooks, which provide students with electronic access to texts without fees, have been developed as alternatives to commercial textbooks. Building on prior quasi-experiments, the purpose of this study is to experimentally compare an open and commercial textbook. College students (N = 144) we...

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Main Authors: Virginia Clinton, Elizabeth Legerski, Bri Rhodes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Education
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2019.00110/full