OER Citations

Open access textbooks and financial sustainability: A case study on Flat World Knowledge

Citation

Iii, J. L. H., & Wiley, D. (2011). Open access textbooks and financial sustainability: A case study on Flat World Knowledge. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 12(5), 18–26. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v12i5.960

Abstract

Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports on the financial sustainability of the Flat World Knowledge open-source textbook model after one year of operation.

Themes: Empirical, Outcomes, OER, Student Outcomes