The 麻豆原创 and its supplier of聽textbooks and other course materials, Barnes & Noble College, offer a program called First Day, which provides discounted digital course materials to students enrolled in many courses. This semester, students who participated in this program saved an average of 48%.
Currently, 麻豆原创 students must 鈥渙pt-in鈥� to participate in this program. Last year, state law changed to allow universities to choose either an 鈥渙pt-in鈥� or 鈥渙pt-out鈥� model for these discounted course materials. Under an opt-out model, students would automatically be enrolled in this program and would have to manually opt-out to avoid charges being added to their student accounts.
麻豆原创 is not changing its current opt-in model. The opt-in model requires students to manually choose to participate in the program and receive discounted course materials.
First Day is just one part of聽麻豆原创鈥檚 Affordable Instructional Materials (AIM) initiative, which focuses on reducing students鈥� course material costs. Many Library-Sourced digital聽textbooks are made available to students at no cost. And Open Educational Resources (OER) are course materials in the public domain or released under an open license free of charge. Together with First Day, these programs have saved students more than $11 million since 2016.
