Welcome to MGA's Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) resource page!

Affordable Learning Georgia is a USG initiative that focuses on reducing student textbook costs through use of Open Educational Resources (OER), the subscription resources provided by GALILEO and the USG libraries, or textbooks and other pedagogical materials using non-traditional licenses. Several faculty at MGA use OpenStax textbooks, but there are many other options.

This guide aims to be a resource for:

• Students
• Faculty who wish to adopt
• Faculty who wish to apply for grants

Faculty at Middle Georgia State University have been using reduced cost materials for some time already, and many have been successful at winning ALG Textbook Transformation Grants. In Spring of 2015 alone, an estimated $47,080 has been saved for students through use of no-cost open textbooks and other OERs. Additionally, MGA faculty have won just under $80,000 in grants to create or adopt reduced cost materials.

To view Grants won by MGA Faculty, please visit the ALG archive.