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New Jersey Statutes Title 18A. Education 18A § 3B-82

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

a. Within one year of the effective date of P.L.2019, c. 77 (C.18A:3B-81 et seq.),  1 an institution of higher education, after consultation with faculty members at the institution, shall submit a plan to the Secretary of Higher Education to expand the use of open textbooks and commercial digital learning materials in order to achieve savings for students enrolled in the institution. The plan may include strategies employed by the institution during the last academic year.

b. The secretary shall review the plan submitted by an institution to ensure that the plan has the potential to:

(1) achieve the highest level of savings for students through the sustainable expanded use of open textbooks in courses offered by the institution;

(2) produce the highest quality open textbooks that can be most easily utilized and adapted by faculty members at the institution, and correspond to the highest enrollment courses at the institution;

(3) ensure that the full and complete digital content of each open textbook created or adapted in accordance with the plan is made available to students enrolled in the institution:

(a) on the institution's college bookstore website in an easily accessible location; and

(b) in a machine readable, digital format that a student can download;

(4) ensure that the institution is making a good faith effort to provide open textbooks to students; and

(5) provide for the implementation of programs which reduce the cost of commercial digital learning materials pursuant to 34 C.F.R. s.668.164(c)(2).

1 L.2019, c. 77, eff. May 2, 2019.
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