Liz Hale's Blog (3)

I don't know if you've gotten Cable Green's invite about open-source webinar, but here it is: Title: Textbook Affordability: A Discussion About Skyrocketing Costs and Emerging Solutions Time/Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET Webinar link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.0DEEEB8B6C0EAFD7993367D2D9948A Textbook prices have risen more than twice the rate of inflation for the past 25 years, and now cost the average student $900 per year. Publi… Continue

Please read the following release from the big Kahuna that landing in my inbox. I don't know more than this at the moment, but it bears tracking.

Message at a Glance

At the end of January, Bill Gates will announce the introduction of a program to give higher education students access to some of Microsoft’s developer and design platform tool

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There are lots of issues with texts....texts have been the bane of students since ...well, since forever.

I plan to discuss a bunch of what's going on in the "e" field since I think some of the applications and solutions are especially important in the field of elearning. However I can't help but reprint this letter of frustration a collegue sent to Cengage (who is Thomson who is Delmar who is a bunch of others) Publishing. We at the bookstore lvl are being taken out of the distributio

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