Redesigning an Open Textbook by Leveraging Media, Pedagogy, and Student Collaboration

Principles of Macroeconomics is a textbook adopted from OpenStax by Dr. Aselia Urmanbetova in the School of Economics for her class, ECON-2105. With support from Affordable Learning Georgia, she and Dr. Chaohua Ou in the Center for Teaching and learning led a project team to transform the textbook by integrating it with visuals, interactivity, and online assessments. The redesigned textbook was first used in the class in Fall 2020 and received very positive feedback from students. 

The textbook is freely accessible online. It has a responsive design and students can read it from their mobile devices. The book is also available on the Canvas course site as learning modules. For students who prefer reading it offline, they can download the textbook app on their devices.