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5 Ways High Textbook Prices Are Hurting Your Students

High textbook prices hurt students in more ways than just their pocketbook. It’s common knowledge that college textbook prices are high. We hear it from students, from some faculty, and from advocacy groups. Prices have been rising well past inflation. And it’s not just that students have to shell out a few more dollars. Having to …

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How Testing Can Help Your Students Learn (Based on the Science of Learning)

Testing has a bad rap. And for good reason. For one, many see the standardized testing in our primary schools as unbeneficial to our students and a poor measure of our kids. Teachers may teach to the test versus teaching for learning and growth. Secondly, testing can be seen merely as a dipstick of how …

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Factors Faculty Use in Choosing a Textbook – The Stats

The Babson Survey Research Group has surveyed faculty over the past few years about the factors they use in choosing textbooks. “Comprehensive content” and “Price” are the top factors faculty use to choose their textbooks, according to Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017. In the previous edition of Opening the Textbook, …

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The Ultimate Time Management Guide for Faculty

As faculty, you have a lot on your plate. Besides teaching class, you have class prep, meetings, student meetings, committee meetings, learning development, paperwork, and likely, more meetings. If you’re not careful, time can get away from you, and you can finish the week wondering what you really accomplished that week. This article is here …

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Georgia Student Creates Site to Help Students Sell Textbooks

Chikamso Anayor Achu, a student at Georgia Southern University, has created a site that helps students sell their textbooks to each other at their college. We think this is awesome for a couple reasons: The entrepreneur spirit: the student saw a need and made something to fix it. It helps students sell their textbooks and …

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