Affordable Learning $olutions

AL$ course showcase: CADV 150

1. Professor name: Virginia Huynh
2. Course name: CADV 150  
3. What were your main motivations to participate in AL$?    
   • Save students money
   • Opportunity to receive stipend 
4. Previous cost of course materials, per student: $56
5. Course savings, per student: $56
6. Number of students in class:  120
7. What's your students' and your experience adopting affordable materials?
   • It was great to eliminate the potential barrier of students unable to access a textbook because of cost or financial aid issues.   
   • A few students said they wished the textbook went in depth about some of the things I cover in my videos which I believed was part of an important learning objective.
   • I had to recreate a lot of slides and videos because the chapter content did not correspond with my previous text. i also had to create new test questions/quizzes to make sure it corresponded with the chapter. The free textbook did not have a test bank or sample assignments or PowerPoints to work off of. I had to learn (and then teach) students how to cite OER textbooks.
8. Click to access syllabus and specific course materials adoption
   • Open textbook (free to download): Paris, J., Ricardo, A., & Rymond, D. (2018). Child Growth and Development.