Open educational resources (OER), including open textbooks, are free, adaptable learning resources. The integration of these materials in place of commercial textbooks allows for considerable financial savings for students and creates opportunities for more active and engaged learning. The growing interest in the use of OER at a Western Canadian university led to the chance to survey students for their feedback on using OER instead of traditional commercial textbooks. This paper focuses on the views of students in an introductory sociology course for which an instructor adopted an open textbook and otherwise left the course unchanged from when it was taught with a traditional textbook. In addition, completion rates for the offerings with the open textbook are compared to previous offerings with a commercial textbook.

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在加拿大社会学概论课程中打开教科书：学生观点和完成率

开放式教育资源（OER），包括开放式教科书，是免费的，适应性强的学习资源。整合这些材料代替商业教科书可为学生节省大量资金，并为更积极和参与的学习创造机会。加拿大西部大学对使用OER的兴趣日益浓厚，因此有机会调查学生对使用OER而非传统商业课本的反馈。本文侧重于社会学入门课程中学生的观点，该课程的讲师采用了开放式教科书，而与传统教科书上的教学相比，课程没有变化。另外，将开放教科书的产品完成率与商业教科书的先前产品进行比较。