http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/ The latest news and commentary on the economy, the markets, and business Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-30783 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:28:16 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-30783 [...] Time誌の記事 [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-30502 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:16:01 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-30502 [...] Luckerson, Victor. (2012, August 10). Free Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education.    Time Business. Retrieved from http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/ [...]

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]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-28653 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:03:32 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-28653 [...] to the open-source revolution, many textbooks can be found online ready for you to read.  As of recent, a few organizations have [...]

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]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26987 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:25:55 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26987 [...] cost. For cash-strapped students facing down years of student loans, and uncertain job prospects, free open source textbooks may be a better deal than interactive iBooks boasting expensively-produced video clips. TIME takes a look at OpenStax [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26945 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:16:39 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26945 [...] Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:16 am Free Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education Open-source textbooks, free for students to use and for professors to modify, are being developed by more companies and adopted in more classrooms. They may work hand-in-hand …. (MORE: Should Justice Drop the Apple ebook Lawsuit?) Flat World pays … Read more on TIME [...]

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]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26655 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:46:45 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26655 [...] Open-source Text Books and how are they changing things for college students? Read about it here - http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. This entry was posted in [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26651 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:33:24 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26651 [...] Read the full article in Time Business to learn more about the open-source textbook revolution. Share this:Like this:LikeBe the first to like this. This entry was posted in Articles, WebAssign and tagged Business, Low Cost Textbook, Open-source textbook, OpenStax, Rice University, Textbook, WebAssign, WebAssign textbooks. [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26633 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:06:31 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26633 [...] Time magazine recently looked at open source textbooks, which are free for students to use and for professors to modify, in an Aug. 10 article titled “Free Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education.” [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26595 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:00:32 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26595 [...] Great article from Time! Read it through, you have no excuses for not studying! Rate this:Spread the word:EmailPrintFacebookTwitterLike this:LikeBe the first to like this. [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26589 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:04:33 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26589 [...] Free Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education Though paying for tuition and housing eat up more money, textbook costs are among the most groan-inducing expenses incurred by college students. With tools like Amazon and chegg.com, only the least resourceful of freshmen are blowing $200 for a brand new textbook these days. But a new type of textbook is threatening to disrupt a $4.5 billion industry that has so far avoided the media upheavals experienced in music, movies and trade publications. Open-source textbooks, free for students to use and for professors to modify, are being developed by more companies and adopted in more classrooms. They may work hand-in-hand with the rise in free online courses to revolutionize the way we view—and pay for—higher education. [...]

]]> http://business.time.com/2012/08/10/free-textbooks-shaking-up-higher-education/#comment-26584 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:56:52 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=46178#comment-26584 [...] Free, Open Source Textbooks Shaking Up Higher Education – A new type of textbook is threatening to disrupt a $4.5 billion industry that has so far avoided the media upheavals experienced in music, movies and trade publications. Open-source textbooks, free for students to use and for professors to modify, are being developed by more companies and adopted in more classrooms. [...]

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