Choice, Affordability & Accessibility for Faculty

Digital Marketplace solutions have been designed to help faculty find the widest range of content choices at the most affordable prices, and include innovative tools to help streamline an instructor’s workload.

Options for More Affordable Course Content:

Bring down the cost of course materials for your students by incorporating more Open Educational Resources (OER). The OER Finders streamline your search, making it much simpler and faster to find appropriate resources for your course. Available now and free for your use, you simply type in a key word or the ISBN of your current textbook and the OER Finder will provide you a list of free online course materials, ready for your review and adoption. All can be found at: http://als.csuprojects.org/course_content external link.

Want to create your own course content? With CSU-negotiated licenses of SoftChalk, faculty can create, publish, and share content as open educational resources (OER). Content can be peer-reviewed, easily discovered, and will meet recently established content and metadata requirements. Every adoption of OER materials saves students money, bringing down the cost of education.

Looking for innovative ways to make your course materials more affordable? The DM has negotiated a new business model with the leading college textbook publishers. With this new licensed content model, students can lease digital content for your course at a fraction of the price currently being charged for new and used print books. The DM provides the enabling delivery services to interested institutions.