This message is sent on behalf of Nicole Allen, SPARC.
Dear colleagues,
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of
InclusiveAccess.org: a community-driven initiative to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing.
Little known five years ago, Inclusive Access has taken off as a sales model that automatically adds the cost of digital textbooks into students’ tuition and fees. While this model is intended to address some of the challenges with high textbook costs,
it is also creating new challenges for students and faculty.
How exactly does Inclusive Access work? Does it really save students money? What about this kind of program is “inclusive”? Straightforward answers to these questions aren’t always easy to find.
InclusiveAccess.org is a one-stop-shop for information, tools, and other resources to help administrators, faculty, students, and policymakers make informed decisions about Inclusive Access and its implications for the campus community.
InclusiveAccess.org was developed by SPARC with generous support from the
Michelson 20MM Foundation.
Partners include AAC&U, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Creative Commons, DigiTex, Student PIRGs, Open Education Global, and OpenStax. Other mission-aligned organizations are encouraged to join.
If conversations about Inclusive Access are happening in your campus or state, we hope you will consider sharing this resource far and wide! To stay in the loop,
sign up for emails and follow
@TextbookBilling on Twitter.
Cheers,
Nicole Starr Allen
SPARC
| Director of Open Education
1201 Connecticut Ave NW, #608
Washington, DC 20036 USA
+1 (202) 750-1637
nicole@sparcopen.org
@txtbks