The authors report that textbook costs are "a substantial barrier for the vast majority of students." Moreover, "those barriers were even more significant among historically underserved college students; thus, confirming textbook affordability as a redistributive justice issue, and positing OER as a potential avenue for realizing a more socially just college experience." This paper is more of an exercise in different types of statistics than anything else, since I think the conclusion has pretty much been established by now, but the authors assert that there was "a significant gap of understanding in current bodies of literature, prompting calls for more empirically-based examinations of OER through a social justice lens."
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