Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Google Alert - college textbooks

News9 new results for college textbooks
Low-cost textbooks for college students make debut
The Seattle Times
The state community-college board is creating low-cost textbooks and course materials and distributing them online for free in a new program that rolled out Monday. By Katherine Long This is awesome. One of the biggest expenses for students is ...
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Students could save millions on open source texts
The Seattle Times
College students in Washington state will be the first beneficiaries of a state project to make inexpensive, open source textbooks available for the most popular college classes. By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP Associated Press Take your career to new ...
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Saving Textbook Receipts Could Save College Students up to $2500
Sacramento Bee
The credit covers textbooks and other course material expenses – as well as tuition and fees not covered by scholarships or grants up to $2500 each year for the first four years of college. Forty percent of the credit is refundable. ...
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Should textbooks really cost $200?
MSN Money
In a world where you can download a best-seller for $10 to $13, the price of college textbooks seems pretty egregious. It's not unusual for a hardcover full-color textbook to cost $200 or more. Surely, it's time to fight back again greedy publishers ...
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Pearson, Knewton Team Up To Personalize College
Forbes
A partnership announced today between Knewton, a New York City startup, and Pearson, the world's biggest publisher of print and online textbooks, may offer some help with this challenge. Knewton, founded in 2008, has created adaptive learning software ...
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Bookstore or internet: What do students prefer?
Lariat Saddleback College
Whether you go online or the bookstore, most students on the poll or survey at Saddleback have said that they really need books either way in order to function in their classes. For those who to go to the bookstore to get textbooks, the college ...
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iPad textbook startup Inkling goes mainstream with cookbook launch
GigaOm
Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis tells me that Inkling's bread and butter will continue to be bringing interactive versions of college textbooks to the iPad, but that this is the first of a series of new titles that the company expects will bridge the gap ...
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The Torch: College Visits and Fairs Alleviate Scares
my.hsj.org
As the end of high school rolls around, many students trade turning the pages of their textbooks for turning the pages of college brochures to study up on some much needed information. Fortunately for Dominion students, opportunities to meet with ...
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College-tuition calculators have their drawbacks
The Olympian
And it's good that colleges are being required to inform families about the true cost of college - from tuition and textbooks to transportation and room and board. That's right - calculators, plural. While the Department of Education came up with a net ...
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