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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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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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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In his book The Ultimate Sales Machine, Chet Holmes states that if you want motivate people to make a change, you must help them feel the pain of not changing first. Tony Robbins says that the two controlling forces in our life are desire and pain. We move toward pleasure and away from pain. This …
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 …
We are at the annual Conference on College Composition & Communication in Kansas City, Missouri this week having fun. If you are here with us, make sure to come and see us. We are at booth 120.
There are statistics that show the different trends of college textbooks throughout the web, but they are spread out. We have put them together in one list for you. The list covers: faculty and their use and choosing of textbooks students and their use (or not use) of textbooks along with their buying habits the …
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Do you realize that your students may have a single constraint, or bottleneck, that, if fixed, could release a floodgate of learning and success? What do I mean by that? Is the book, The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox tell a story about a manager, Alex, who is the manager of a factory that …
Stephen Covey, in his book First Things First, asks, “What is the one activity that you know if you did superbly well and consistently would have significant positive results in your … life?” Have you ever considered posing this question to your students? What one activity in your student’s lives, if they did it consistently …
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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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