by Naomi S. Baron During the pandemic, many college professors abandoned assignments from printed textbooks and turned instead to digital texts or multimedia coursework. As a professor of linguistics, I…
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By Rich Russell The season for reading is here, friends! I feel guilty about how little progress I've made on the stack of books nesting on my…
by Jed Davis Textbooks costs, which have far outpaced the cost of inflation in the previous decade, are a longstanding problem among college students. The textbook industry…
By Rich Russell As an adjunct professor, I don't always have the "privilege" of being able to choose my own textbook. If one is assigned for a…
By Lance Eaton Recently, I listened to the audiobook of Chris Anderson’s “Free: The Future of Radical Price” for free. The premise is that behind the digital…
by Eric Gorski On Friday afternoons between work and rugby practice, Brittany Wolfe would rush to the campus library hoping copies of her advanced algebra textbook had…
by Mary Beth Marklein Oklahoma State University professor Bill Handy has big plans for the Apple iPad this fall. If the text messages he has received since…
