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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

So on the flip side of this market, textbook publishers and learning companies lose massive portions of what should be their core revenue stream to this secondary market. Go to class, hold off on rushing into any nontransparent purchasing decision, and rent an e-textbook by the day. Young: Just on time, thank you.

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