Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Education at UWM

French 103

This course has used an open textbook for 5 semesters.

• Open Textbook used: Liberté
• 228 students
• Replaced $250 textbook
• Totals student savings of $57,000

French 104

This course has used an open textbook for 4 semesters.

• Open Textbook used: Liberté
• 130 students
• Replaced $250 textbook
• Totals student savings of $32,500

Computer Science: Natural Language Processing 423/723

This course has used an open textbook for 2 semesters. 

• Open Textbook created by UWM Faculty used: Principles of Natural Language Processing
• 79 students
• Replaced $100 textbook
• Totals student savings of $7,900

Art History 101

This course has used open access materials for 10 semesters. 

• This course will be using a collection of open access materials including readings and images
• 1152 students
• Replaced $250 Textbook
• Totals student savings of $228,000

Art History 102

This course has used open access materials for 10 semesters. 

• This course will be using a collection of open access materials including readings and images
• 1,038 students
• Replaced $174 Textbook
• Totals student savings of $180,612

Information Studies 640/640G

This course has used an open textbook for 1 semester

• Open Textbook: Instruction in Libraries and Information Centers: An Introduction
• 25 students
• Replaced $60 textbook
• Total Savings of $1,500

Spanish 318

This course has used an open textbook for 2 semesters. 

• Open Textbook used: Canvas curated materials
• 62 students
• Replaced $100 textbook
• Totals student savings of $6,200

German 145

This course has used an affordable textbook for 1 semester. 

• Affordable Textbook used: Food Culture in Germany
• 6 students
• Replaced $58 textbook
• Totals student savings of $348

Astronomy 103

This course has used an open textbook for 9 semesters in all sections. 

• Open Textbook: OpenStax  Astronomy  
• 2,808 Students 
• Replaced $77 textbook
• Totals student savings of $216,216

Astronomy 185

This course has used an open textbook for 4 semesters. 

• Open Textbook: Survey of Astronomy 
• 74 Students
• Replaced $77 textbook
• Totals student savings $5,698

Philosophy 111

This course has used an open textbook for 9 semesters

• Open Textbook written by UWM Faculty: Fundamental Methods of Logic
• 973 students
• Replaced $40 textbook
• Total Savings of $38,920

Biomedical Sciences 290

This course has used an open textbook for 3 semesters.

• Open Textbook used: OpenStax College Success
• 64 students
• Replaced $50 textbook
• Totals student savings of $1,400

Nutrition 550

This course has used an open textbook for 3 semesters in all sections.

• Open Textbook: Curated Open Access content on Canvas
• 77 Students
• Replaced $100 textbook
• Totals student savings of $7,700

Educational Psychology 110 and 279

This course has used an open textbook for 3 semesters. 

• Open Textbook that will be used: College Success
• 579 students
• Replaced $124 textbook
• Totals student savings of $71,796

Biomedical Sciences 245

This course has used an open textbook for 6 semesters

• Open Textbook: Introduction to Sociology 2e 
• 683 students
• Replaced $81 textbook
• Total Savings of $55,323