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University of Texas launches e-textbook trial
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:54 amby HB Pony Dad
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... trial.html
Students under UT's plan, though, download digital textbooks to their hard drives. About 1,000 students will participate in the trial in the next academic year
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:28 pmby DiamondM75
UT is the perfect place for this.
They are use to trials.
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:54 pmby jtstang
Yes, but they aren't used to textbooks, so maybe not...
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:47 pmby BleedingRed+Blue
How will their football and basketball players color them in?
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Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:17 pmby RGV Pony
I'll admit I thought this thread was about something else when I saw "University of Texas" and "trial" in the same phrase
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:35 amby smu diamond m
I LOVELOVELOVE the few textbooks I can get digitally. It is cheaper, more convenient, cheaper, greener, cheaper, and cheaper.
I'm sure there are other subject that are the same way, but I've had multiple engineering books in the $400 range. That's ridiculous!
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Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:42 amby J.T.supporta
BleedingRed+Blue wrote:How will their football and basketball players color them in?
A
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Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:01 amby Pony Soup
Michael Granof - an accounting teacher in the MBA program (and faculty chair or the UT co-op) - was published in the NYT last summer suggesting this. It REALLY makes sense when you think through it. The used textbook market will get crushed but in the end, students and professors/authors win. Link below:
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/news/pres ... _op-ed.asp
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Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:11 amby expony18
The MBA program at Tulsa gives you the option of using online text books. I have only tried it for my accounting class which was interesting, but I really wish the law school would try it out.