Associate Professor,
Sociology
Course Awards
2016
SOC 1013: Intro to Sociology
Student savings/semester
$6,700*
After seeing how big publisher textbooks were overpriced and getting more expensive every year, Michael Miller started to explore the free textbook landscape. He began using OpenStax’s Introduction to Sociology text in spring 2014, and has since used it to teach approximately 600 students, which represent a collective savings of at least $50,000.
*Savings reflect implementation for the Fall 2016 as a pilot semester only, per the 2016 Adopt-a-Free-Textbook grant policy.