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Students urge Kansas to expand Open Educational Resources as textbook costs rise
Summary
Student representatives told the Committee on Higher Education Budget that state‑funded OER materials are underused and that some professors require costly commercial, time‑limited online textbooks; students asked for mandated OER use in general‑education courses.
Student witnesses told the Committee on Higher Education Budget that Open Educational Resources (OER) funded for Kansas institutions are infrequently used and that some instructors assign costly, temporary online textbooks.
"None of the courses that I have ever taken over the past 4 years have used resources from this," Danae Estebine, student vice…
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