To expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students.

United States115th CongressHR-3840House of Representatives
Updated: Sep 26, 2017

Summary

Affordable College Textbook Act This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.

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Timeline

Latest companion bill action

S-1864: A bill to expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students.

Introduced in Senate

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

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