Dear Professors: Choose Open Textbooks, Please – Champlain College Center for Publishing

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-02-15

Summary:

"I love getting new books. New textbooks, though? Those are another story. And it’s not just because I don’t find them as interesting as the books I might read for pleasure; it’s because textbooks are, for the most part, outrageously priced. The College Board suggests that college students budget about $1,200 a year just for required texts. For some students at community colleges, that can amount to up to 40 percent of their tuition—just on books! Bigger textbooks, especially those for business and mathematics courses, can go for up to $300 brand new, and renting them often isn’t much cheaper. I, like many of my peers, have gotten pretty adept at shopping around to find the best deals on my textbooks, but sometimes even those aren’t enough. Some students just can’t afford the expensive books—and who can blame them? According to the Government Accountability Office, the cost of textbooks rose at three times the rate of inflation between 2002 and 2013: a whopping 82 percent...."

Link:

https://centerforpublishing.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/dear-professors-choose-open-textbooks-please/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.oer oa.courseware oa.textbooks oa.prices oa.access oa.usa oa.hei oa.profits oa.publishers oa.students oa.faculty oa.books

Date tagged:

02/15/2018, 14:58

Date published:

02/15/2018, 10:06