by Tom Abrahams, ABC 13
It seems higher education gets more expensive every year. Some professors at Rice University have come up with a new way to bring down the cost, while changing the way students are taught. Textbooks are a large part of college students’ education costs, but professors at Rice University are trying to change that. Christian Seberino is on the cutting edge of education. “The light bulb went on that I could use them for my home-school classes,” he said. A PhD who teaches math and physics, he offers his private students and those at Lone Star College the option of digital textbooks. “For every single class, I was eventually able to find a free textbook,” Seberino said. It’s online learning for free, and it’s saving his students hundreds of dollars. When he can find the right book…
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