Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
The prices for textbooks are high enough, and publishers have added the more recent practice of bundling texts with guides or CD-ROMs, and the net result is a cost to students far out of proportion to the value they receive. It won't be long before the internet becomes a genuine alternative, at which point we will hear a collecting wail from the publishing sector. It's a wail that should be ignored, because of the abuses happening today and documented in this article. We need alternatives - where is the online textbook sharing network? And where are the professors who would use it?

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