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It is no secret that the costs of higher education and ballooning student indebtedness have become part of the national consciousness. In numbers this fact is starkly represented by a rise in student loan debt from $240 billion in 2003, to a trillion dollars in 2014. Yes, you read correctly, one trillion dollars….and that is just for tuition. Moreover, the cost of textbooks and digital content in the affordability equation has socked students with price increases in excess of 80 percent.

Within the context of affordability, Broward College prides itself on the low cost of tuition; however controlling external factors such as theBroward College Online increase in textbooks and materials is not feasible. After all, we have had very little influence on the publishing behemoths, let alone the secondary economies built around book rentals, used books, shared books, and even black-market copies until Clayton Christensen’s disruption theory model provided an Internet enabled market solution that addresses these ancillary expenses. Indeed, three years ago Broward College Online, the virtual campus in our system, decided to take a stand and chart a new direction in quality courses and affordability by embracing the disruptive elements of Open Educational Resources (OER).

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