Affordable Learning Georgia Grant

Our team received an Affordable Learning Grant (ALG) in the amount of $25,800. The purpose of our project was to research open access educational resources that yield the greatest benefit to our students. We chose to utilize the OpenStax open access textbook.

This project had four goals: (1) reduce students’ costs of taking POLS 1101 by using no-cost, high quality open educational resources instead of cost prohibitive, traditional textbooks, (2) revise and update existing open educational resources such as American Government by Glen Krutz, (3) adopt and create open educational resources that supplement American Government by Glen Krutz, and (4) increase student success rates in POLS 1101 by using no-cost, high quality, dynamic resources on American politics.

We used a mixed methods research design that showed 86% of our students have positive comments about the educational resources we selected.

Krutz, G., & Waskiewicz, S. (2021). American Government 3e. OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/american-government-3e/pages/1-introduction