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Federal Rule Change May Undermine ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Models

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There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. Searching for Savings The business of textbooks elicits strong opinions from nearly everyone in higher education.

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Textbooks optional: What unbundling and BYOD mean for learning technology

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The traditional textbook and workbook combination, complete with a #2 pencil. As part of the macro trend of unbundling education, teachers are delivering a modern, customized curriculum by curating content in the form of videos, online text, and apps–moving beyond the physical textbooks.

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

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Among contemporary education critics, the textbook is a classic and perennial foil—perhaps because its very construction is essentially a compromise between experts and politicians, groups with sometimes competing agendas. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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Can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this years MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. Of the hundreds of participating teams, nine finalist teams were selected from across the U.S., How can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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Nine New Lawsuits Target ?Inclusive Access? Textbook Programs, Alleging Antitrust Violations

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Student complaints about the digital textbook and courseware bundles now assigned in many college classes have escalated into a new batch of legal challenges. And students are used to being able to resell their print textbooks after a semester is over, but digital codes can’t be shared or resold.

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

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Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”

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Free Textbooks Are Not Always Free: New Study Analyzes OER’s Costs to Colleges

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When professors shift to assigning Open Educational Resources instead of publisher-produced textbooks, the move typically saves students money (and it can be a significant amount). Across the participating schools, the bulk of the money went to developing the course materials.

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