Assignments Syllabus Textbooks 
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2021
A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Baraniuk recalls thinking.
Edsurge
MARCH 28, 2018
Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But those materials were not ideal.
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 13, 2024
Textbooks and course materials to review, syllabi to update, lessons to plan, lectures to prepare. Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.),
Edsurge
AUGUST 1, 2017
Is that a real A, or an A based on turning in the syllabus? The average high school textbook costs $70 and weighs about a million pounds. Filled to the brim with textbooks, binders, notebooks, and a computer, it’s no wonder so many teens suffer from early back pain. We spend the entire semester wondering what our grade is.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.
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