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1	Textbook Cost-lowering Initiatives: An Exploration Of Community College Faculty Experiences Dunn, Susan 01 January 2014 (has links) Faculty have been identified as critical players in the implementation of textbook affordability efforts at community colleges. Furthermore, emerging lower-cost alternatives to traditional textbooks present a wide and growing range of options that may help further efforts. This study sought to examine more closely the role of faculty with respect to textbook cost-lowering initiatives. The researcher utilized in-depth interviews to gain a rich picture of the experiences, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of nine full-time community college faculty as they confronted textbook affordability efforts and textbook alternatives. The interview data were analyzed using a thematic analysis process. Five major themes and three minor themes were identified. The five major themes were: (a) campus administrators support, but do not mandate, efforts; (b) frequent edition revisions frustrate faculty; (c) departmental approaches to textbook selection vary; (d) content, then affordability, drive selection choices; and (e) faculty have mixed feelings about textbook alternatives. The three minor themes were: (a) faculty efforts to save students money are thwarted by campus bookstores and financial aid policies; (b) English faculty benefit from public domain readings; and (c) more faculty participating in textbook selection means more difficulty deciding on a text. Implications and recommendations were offered for community college leaders, campus bookstores, publishers, and future researchers. Textbooks costs open educational resources oer ebooks etextbooks electronic textbooks custom editions custom textbooks higher education costs college costs costs of college cost of community college textbook affordability affordability digital textbooks textbook alternatives qualitative research in depth interviews faculty thematic analysis community college community college faculty theory of planned behavior Education Educational Leadership

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Textbook Cost-lowering Initiatives: An Exploration Of Community College Faculty Experiences