Comments on: Textbooks at a reasonable price, please http://michaelgowin.com/blog/2009/07/15/textbooks-at-a-reasonable-price-please/ For lack of a better title Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michael http://michaelgowin.com/blog/2009/07/15/textbooks-at-a-reasonable-price-please/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Michael Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:34:06 +0000 http://michaelgowin.com/blog/?p=210#comment-541 I just read that Fast Company article as well, Chris, and wonder what the future holds for higher ed. A lot of schools are facing declining enrollment, budget and staff cuts. The old model needs some adjustments. I just read that Fast Company article as well, Chris, and wonder what the future holds for higher ed. A lot of schools are facing declining enrollment, budget and staff cuts. The old model needs some adjustments.

]]> By: Chris Quick http://michaelgowin.com/blog/2009/07/15/textbooks-at-a-reasonable-price-please/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Chris Quick Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:07:57 +0000 http://michaelgowin.com/blog/?p=210#comment-540 As a grad student, I very much appreciate your perspective on textbooks and hope more instructors follow your lead. Opportunities to price shop and buy used online help defray costs some, but still I fork over hundreds of dollars for poorly-written, dated textbooks and lament how many excellent trade books on my Amazon wish list I could have bought instead. I'd love to come take your class! The September issue of Fast Company has an excellent article, "Who Needs Harvard," about how web 2.0 technology is opening up access to high quality educational resources and course content and seems poised to change the shape of higher education. I hope one change that comes on the coattails of this progress is lower costs of textbooks and course materials and better quality in the materials we do have to purchase. As a grad student, I very much appreciate your perspective on textbooks and hope more instructors follow your lead. Opportunities to price shop and buy used online help defray costs some, but still I fork over hundreds of dollars for poorly-written, dated textbooks and lament how many excellent trade books on my Amazon wish list I could have bought instead. I’d love to come take your class!

The September issue of Fast Company has an excellent article, “Who Needs Harvard,” about how web 2.0 technology is opening up access to high quality educational resources and course content and seems poised to change the shape of higher education. I hope one change that comes on the coattails of this progress is lower costs of textbooks and course materials and better quality in the materials we do have to purchase.

]]> By: Troy Parrish http://michaelgowin.com/blog/2009/07/15/textbooks-at-a-reasonable-price-please/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Troy Parrish Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:58:23 +0000 http://michaelgowin.com/blog/?p=210#comment-532 My daughter and I in an attempt to combat the issue of high costs and the very paltry offerings in the buy back programs decided to create a way for her and the students at her school to exchange information on used text books. I created CC Book Exchange (http://ccbookexchange.com) for students to use free of charge to list their used books for sale as well as buy them from others. We hope as many as possible will make use of the site in order to provide a better value for the texts students use. Just our way of trying to contribute. My daughter and I in an attempt to combat the issue of high costs and the very paltry offerings in the buy back programs decided to create a way for her and the students at her school to exchange information on used text books. I created CC Book Exchange (http://ccbookexchange.com) for students to use free of charge to list their used books for sale as well as buy them from others. We hope as many as possible will make use of the site in order to provide a better value for the texts students use. Just our way of trying to contribute.

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