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Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Peralta Colleges consider free digital textbooks as a future resource for students

At its regular Tuesday meeting, the Peralta Community College Board of Trustees heard a report from Dr. Fabian Banga, a Spanish instructor at Berkeley City College, on the potential use of open educational resources as a means of controlling the rising cost of college textbooks down. “In community colleges, 75 percent of total school cost