As open textbook initiatives are on the rise, a burgeoning literature has begun exploring student perceptions of openly licensed textbooks used in higher education. Most of this research has lacked consideration of potential differences in the perceptions of online and on-campus students and has failed to include a control group of students using traditional textbooks. Therefore, the authors employed a 2 x 2 design to directly compare perceptions of online students with on-campus students assigned either open or traditional textbooks. Students (N = 925) enrolled in multiple sections of psychology courses at a midsized R1 institution completed a survey on their perceptions of their particular book’s format and features, as well as strategies they typically employ to offset the cost of expensive course materials. The results revealed that online and on-campus students report disparate strategies for offsetting the high costs of textbooks, different preferences in textbook formats (print versus digital versus both) when cost is not a factor, and differences in their ratings of the importance of various textbook features. Moreover, the results indicate that the use of open textbooks may increase preference for free digital textbooks over paid printed textbooks. Based on these results, the authors suggest that campuses might consider providing customized support to different student populations as open textbook initiatives gain in popularity on university campuses. Additionally, they suggest that prior exposure to open textbooks may increase students’ willingness to use openly licensed materials in future courses. They recommend future research on this question, using a longitudinal within-subjects designs.

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开到开？探索针对在线学生和校园学生的课本偏好和抵消课本成本的策略

随着开放式教科书计划的兴起，新兴的文学开始探索学生对高等教育中使用的开放许可教科书的看法。这项研究大多数都没有考虑在线和在校学生在观念上的潜在差异，也没有包括使用传统教科书的对照组学生。因此，作者采用2 x 2设计直接比较在线学生与分配了公开课或传统课本的在校学生的看法。在一家中等规模的R1机构中，参加过心理学课程多个部分的学生（N = 925）完成了对他们对特定书的格式和功能的认知以及他们通常用来抵消昂贵课程材料成本的策略的调查。结果显示，在线和校园内学生报告了不同的策略来抵消教科书的高昂费用，在成本不是因素的情况下对教科书格式的偏好（印刷版，数字版与电子版或两者兼有），以及他们对各种重要性的评分的差异教科书功能。而且，结果表明，使用开放式教科书可能会增加免费数字教科书相对于付费印刷教科书的偏好。基于这些结果，作者建议，随着开放式教科书计划在大学校园中的普及，校园可能会考虑为不同的学生群体提供定制的支持。此外，他们建议，事先接触公开课本可能会增加学生在以后的课程中使用公开许可的材料的意愿。