Indiana Private Colleges Leading Push For Free Open Source Textbooks In Classrooms Unable to load the audio player. playpausemuteunmute Article origination Indiana Public Radio As a recent state report shows, the rate of Hoosier high school graduates going to college is at its lowest point in recent history. For some, itâs the cost keeping them out of classrooms. And a surprisingly high cost is textbooks. But an Indiana initiative is trying to change that, by encouraging college professors to use free open-source textbooks. As IPRâs Stephanie Wiechmann reports, itâs seeing savings for students. The program is PALSave, run by the Private Academic Library Network of