Showing posts with label college textbooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college textbooks. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

As classrooms go digital textbooks are history

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/education/09textbook.html?ref=education

In Arizona, teachers are being encouraged to create — and share — lessons that incorporate materials they find by sifting through reliable Internet sites. What advantages do you think digital copies give students? What are the disadvantages?

Thursday, August 13, 2009

New option to rent textbooks instead of buying

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/education/14textbook.html?_r=1&ref=education

In the rapidly evolving college textbook market, one of the nation’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage Learning, announced on Thursday that it would start renting books to students this year, at 40 to 70 percent of the sale price. Would you choose to rent over buying the textbook? Why or why not?

Monday, August 3, 2009

To Rent or To Own?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/31/textbooks

See the story above from insidehighered.com about the new wave in the textbook publishing world. Would you rather be renting?