Georgia Highlands College has saved students $3.8 million over the past five semesters by eliminating the cost of textbooks in specific courses.

GHC’s faculty have been working since Fall 2015 to expand Open Education Resources (OER) courses each semester. Almost half a million dollars’ worth of student savings was yielded the first semester alone.

To date, GHC has saved students $3,843,664 in textbook costs.

Full story: https://www.highlands.edu/2017/03/01/ghc-saves-students-nearly-4-million-eliminating-textbook-costs/