Can a Health-Insurance Model Bring ‘Equitable Access’ to the Textbook Market? - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Summary:

"Textbook news is everywhere these days. Last month Cengage and McGraw-Hill said they would merge and Wiley bought Knewton. And last week the State University of New York announced a major expansion of its relationship with Lumen Learning, a company that promotes the use of open educational resources.

All of those developments have the potential to upend how much — and how — college students pay for books in the future. But why wait? An experiment now underway at the University of California at Davis aims to lower costs for students and to guarantee them access to all assigned course materials while assuring publishers of a continuous market for their products.

It’s still early, but I think this “equitable access” approach — in which all students pay the same book fee every term, no matter the course or discipline — could revolutionize the textbook business at a time when costly textbooks have become a barrier to many financially needy students...."

Link:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-a-Health-Insurance-Model/246513

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Date tagged:

06/18/2019, 15:34

Date published:

06/18/2019, 11:34