Topic: Free or low cost textbook options in classes
Potential source #1: Students
How much have you spent on textbooks during your college career?
Have you taken classes where your professor used a free textbook?
How useful have textbooks you bought for classes been?
Potential source #2: Professors
How often do you require students to buy textbooks for classes?
How often do you use textbooks in class?
Do students ever complain about the price of textbooks?
Potential source #3: Textbook publisher representative
Do you think expensive textbooks are a problem for students?
Have you noticed any recent decline in textbook sales?
Do you think there are high quality free textbooks available online?
Articles:
#1: Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks
An article from The Atlantic showing how expensive normal textbooks, especially now that access codes for online resources are packaged in with them.
An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about how online free textbooks are becoming more accepted and about how expensive textbooks impact students.
“'Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017,' surveyed 2,700 full- and part-time faculty members to measure, among other things, their use of open educational resources, commonly called OER."
Potential source #1: Students
How much have you spent on textbooks during your college career?
Have you taken classes where your professor used a free textbook?
How useful have textbooks you bought for classes been?
Potential source #2: Professors
How often do you require students to buy textbooks for classes?
How often do you use textbooks in class?
Do students ever complain about the price of textbooks?
Potential source #3: Textbook publisher representative
Do you think expensive textbooks are a problem for students?
Have you noticed any recent decline in textbook sales?
Do you think there are high quality free textbooks available online?
Articles:
#1: Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks
An article from The Atlantic showing how expensive normal textbooks, especially now that access codes for online resources are packaged in with them.
"Along with the traditional textbooks, many college classes now require students to purchase access codes—which cost $100 on average—to online platforms created by publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Pearson. Homework and quizzes are hidden on the platforms behind paywalls that expire after the semester, meaning students can’t resell them once they’re done with the course."
An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about how online free textbooks are becoming more accepted and about how expensive textbooks impact students.
“'Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017,' surveyed 2,700 full- and part-time faculty members to measure, among other things, their use of open educational resources, commonly called OER."
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