Listening to a webinar about how course material costs affect students other than simply financially, and one thing they touched on is the temporary nature of a lot of course materials these days. They’re e-books that you rent and then get returned, or physical book rentals, or they’re so expensive you have to sell them back to the bookstore to recoup the loss of money. And I hadn’t really grokked how much mroe true this was now? @academicchatter #TextbookAffordability
I certainly didn’t keep every textbook, but I have a good box I’ve been carrying around for two decades, and just last month I pulled out one of my old Roman textbooks and gave it to my kid to do research on Rome for his social studies class because I knew it was a good basic resource for what he needed, and he didn’t need the most cutting edge research or anything. But students of today won’t be able to do that. @academicchatter@a.gup.pe #TextbookAffordability