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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

As per the latest annual survey of state spending by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), state spending per student has declined at public colleges and universities by around 8%. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. but they do get to save money through this model.

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To Save Its Campus Bookstore, This University Took It Online

Edsurge

The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. If I have a choice between three sections of a course, and one has OER and one has a $200 or $300 textbook, I want to know that because that’s a factor in my choice.” The university’s data supports that.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market.

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