Educational Technology

February 16, 2012

Temple U. Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternatives

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By Nick DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Ed

When students groan about buying traditional textbooks, their grievances follow a familiar refrain: They’re expensive and usually boring. So this fall, a team of Temple University professors heeded those complaints and abandoned the old-fashioned texts for low-cost alternatives that they built from scratch. The pilot project gave 11 faculty members $1,000 each to create a digital alternative to a traditional textbook.  The textbooks covered a variety of subjects, including biomechanics, writing, and marketing. The Temple program mirrors a similar effort announced at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in December.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/temple-project-ditches-textbooks-for-homemade-digital-alternatives/35247

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