The University of Oklahoma
Center for Teaching Excellence

Infographic: Paper Versus Pixels

Paper versus pixels. Saving our students money. Seven out of ten students decide not to buy a textbook because of high costs. Between july 2011 and July 2012 average textbook prices have increased by 8.1 percent. Organic Cehmistry costs 1,097.25 dollars based on three credit hours. Tuition and fees costs 845.25 dollars, and the average textbook costs 252 dollars. For 30 credit hours, new textbooks can cost up to twelve hundred dollars. Current organic chemistry textbook, used for two semesters. Used costs 189 dollars. New costs 252 dollars. Digital costs only 90 dollars. The supply chain markup on textbooks can be up to thirty-five percent. Since 1978, average college textbook prices have increasec by 812 percent. Digital textbooks are project to represent fourty-four percent of the textbook market by 2017. The cost if ibook production is estimated to be eighty percent less than print publication. Many peer-reviewed open-source textbooks are free for students. Center for Teaching Excellence, The University of Oklahoma. OU Office of the President. OU Office of the Senior Vice President and provost. One University, innovation meets tradition. The University of Oklahoma Libraries. Sources. theatlanticwire.com. Seventy percent of college students have forgone textbooks because of price. Allthingsd.com. 350,000 textbooks downloaded from apple's ibooks in three days. ael-ideas.org. The college textbook bubble and how the open educational resources movement is going up against the textbook cartel. nextisnow.net. Digital textbooks reaching the tipping point in the u.s. higher educaiton. a revised five-year projection. openstaxcollege.org



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