The time has come to reimagine college textbooks for the modern digital era We need to place high-quality curated knowledge for the next generation in a modern digital context VINAY K. CHAUDHRI It breaks my heart when the costs of college-level textbooks are labeled as “junk fees.” Or, when people complain that today’s textbooks are “overstuffed, chopped-up monstrosities” that are boring and do little to advance student learning. Yet all this angst over textbooks misses these crucial facts: Textbooks provide a carefully curated body of knowledge. Textbooks need to be nearly 100 percent accurate. Textbooks offer the view of an expert educator. […]
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