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Why do we still have basic textbooks in higher ed?

March 2, 2019February 12, 2019 by Tom Haymes
Textbooks forming a ladder with a student climbing up. At the top is a graduation cap.
Textbooks, particularly basic textbooks, are containers of water. Furthermore, they are pernicious cost-drivers for our students. A recent study by the College Board indicated that the average cost…
Categories Campus Leadership, Classroom Innovation, Featured on eCampus News, Institutional Management
IT Leadership

This backlash trend is gaining momentum

April 10, 2014 by From wire reports
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In a trend occurring in multiple colleges across the country, students are saying ‘no’ to eBooks, due poor ease-of-use, limited funds for eReaders, and lack of available resources.…
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership
IT Leadership

New open-source strategy would drop textbook costs to $0

April 9, 2014 by From wire reports
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Holding a whiteboard, the University of Maryland-College Park students scrawled their complaints and posed for a picture. “My name is Justin and I spent $114 on ONE textbook,”…
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership
IT Leadership

The business of ed-tech: Textbook shopping made easy

April 8, 2014 by By Denny Carter, Editor
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David Miller knows that when a college student pays $30 for a textbook they had seen available for $200, they'll never go back. That's the story of cash-saving…
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IT Leadership

1 million students to get free textbooks

April 1, 2014April 1, 2014 by By Jaccii Barmer, editorial intern, <a href='https://twitter.com/ecn_jaccii' target='_blank'>@eCN_Jaccii</a>
This fall over 1 million students will have access to the free textbook, Principles of Economics, provided by OpenStax College. Founded in 2012, OpenStax College is a nonprofit…
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IT Leadership

Students still prefer print textbooks over digital

March 31, 2014March 27, 2014 by By Jake New, Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/ecn_jake' target='_blank'>@eCN_Jake</a>
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Study suggests college students are slow to adopt eTextbooks College students still prefer print textbooks over digital textbooks, partially because ... Read more
Categories Campus Leadership, Institutional Management, IT Leadership
IT Leadership

Open-source textbooks projected to save students $3.7M

November 22, 2013August 20, 2013 by By Denny Carter, Managing Editor
The open-source online textbook publisher OpenStax College, which claims it could save students upwards of $750 million in textbook costs over the next five years, announced this week…
Categories Controlling technology costs, IT Leadership
IT Leadership

OU pushes online material as textbook alternative

June 19, 2013 by From staff and wire reports
Students are saving money on textbooks because of a program that puts more college course material online, according to University of Oklahoma officials.
Categories IT Leadership
Campus Leadership

When textbooks were the next big, evil thing

June 4, 2013 by ECampus News staff and wire reports
The “MOOC revolution” in higher education— the advent of massive online open courses—is causing massive anxiety in American universities, where professors are worried about the consequences of computers…
Categories Around the Web, Campus Leadership, Institutional Management

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