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editorial@newsandsentinel.com PARKERSBURG — Students at West Virginia University at Parkersburg have saved more than $140,000 through the use of no-cost and open educational resources in 38 courses, the school said. Open educational resources are teaching and learning materials freely accessible or released under an open license for free-access use. Online education materials are important, especially to community colleges, to decrease the cost of traditional textbooks. “The benefit of crea...