Free Textbooks From Rice OpenStax: Too Good to Be True? | William Fenton | PCMag.com

acavaminombre's bookmarks 2018-06-14

Summary:

"Students and educators agree: textbooks are too expensive. While educators can request exam or desk copies, students confront textbook costs at the beginning of each and every semester. In my experience, the more expensive the textbook, the less likely students are to purchase and use it. That taxes class discussions—try discussing a text when students are working from PDFs or photocopies of dated editions—and it offends educators' egalitarian sensibilities. Most of my colleagues do not want to contribute to our students' college debt."

Link:

https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/346309/free-textbooks-from-rice-openstax-too-good-to-be-true

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Date tagged:

06/14/2018, 13:49

Date published:

06/14/2018, 09:49