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I think making textbooks more accessible to students will be a huge positive movement for education, especially in countries such as the states where education is already a multi billion dollar industry.
I think making textbooks more accessible to students will be a huge positive movement for education, especially in countries such as the states where education is already a multi billion dollar industry.
Just saying, I didn’t use a single textbook throughout my entire CS degree here. All of the course materials were available freely on our Moodle instance or through our library. Most of the course materials were produced by the lecturers, and where they had written a proper textbook, they just sent us the PDFs.
Ripping off students through overpriced mandatory textbooks is not a worldwide phenomena. Through CS Bachelor and Master I too have never had to buy a coursebook. The few books that were needed for extremely standardized courses like math 1-3 were available in sufficient numbers in the library.
It takes two to force students to spend so much on books, a publisher can price their books anyway they like if there isnt a university forcing their students to use them. That for profit universities dont have a problem with that is not surprising.
Many textbook publishers, including Pearson, have already begun strongly encouraging professors to use additional online components from the publisher for things like homework assignments. Even if you buy the textbook used, you still have to purchase an online access code from the publisher (often for $100+ for the semester). The textbook publishers have been working on crushing the textbook resale market for years,…
This is evil on so many levels - no ownership - you only rent!
It will be interesting to see where this goes. After undergrad and grad school, the amount of times I’ve gone back to hardcopy books or course notes is so tiny that It didn’t justify lugging them around over many moves. (And I love books - prefer bookcases to wallpaper!) The current model of forcing student to re-buy books that are only marginally updated on an annual basis is wasteful. The real question is will tota…
This means in two decades we won't have any record of what was in these textbooks, right? :/
But with no physical textbooks no-one will know when stuff is removed or changed. This could be a wonderful move, but human nature says it'll be the opposite.
Many textbook publishers, including Pearson, have already begun strongly encouraging professors to use additional online components from the publisher for things like homework assignments. Even if you buy the textbook used, you still have to purchase an online access code from the publisher (often for $100+ for the semester). The textbook publishers have been working on crushing the textbook resale market for years,…
Am I missing something?
[1] https://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/abp/engineering-resources
Many textbook publishers, including Pearson, have already begun strongly encouraging professors to use additional online components from the publisher for things like homework assignments. Even if you buy the textbook used, you still have to purchase an online access code from the publisher (often for $100+ for the semester). The textbook publishers have been working on crushing the textbook resale market for years,…
Instructor resources have always been distributed separately afaik. If you're a student you can access free digital content from their website[1]. Am I missing something? [1] https://media.pearsoncmg.com/bc/abp/engineering-resources
This means in two decades we won't have any record of what was in these textbooks, right? :/