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Michael Holdsworth gives a 'provocative vision of publishing's future'.
In an article in The Bookseller's London Book Fair Daily issue for Tuesday, 17 April 2007, Michael Holdsworth says the following (amongst other things), which may be pertinent to the current debate on students and textbooks:
'For many students, information that is not online simply does not exist, to the dismay of their sooo-last-century professors. The library is ignored since the chances are that the book will be out on loan, mis-shelved, or will have had the chapter razored out; and the bookshop, where the right coursebooks are perceived to be too expensive or rarely available, is shunned. Time-rich and money-poor, the younger generation surf their always-on broadband to find roughly what they need--and preferably for free (that is, ripped-off or in the public domain).'
Do other people feel that Holdsworth has read the situation correctly? Or is he just being provocative, as suggested in the article's lead-in?
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Posted on 24 Apr 2007 around 2pm by Web Admin
The price of higher education textbooks has generated some heated debate in the U.S.
Have a look at this web site
It contains among other items a downloadable report entitled, 'Exposing the Textbook Industry:How Publishers' Pricing Tactics Drive up the Cost of College Textbooks'.
I can't think of a similar campaign in the U.K. It makes for pretty strong stuff. What do others think?
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Posted on 22 Mar 2007 around 5pm by Web Admin
test submission, On Human Progress
“As I glance from face to face, I get this hunch that none of us here has more than a witch doctor’s understanding of the medicine we are practicing. Our tribe is dying and we are dancing in our ceremonial smoke to exorcise the Devil that’s ailing us”. - E Goldraat, The Goal 1982
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Posted on 19 Mar 2007 around 3pm by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Three authors, who are participating in the OpenBooks OpenMinds project have published an article in the BeJLT .
Philip Carpenter, Adrian Bullock and Jane Potter are authors of Textbooks in Teaching and Learning: The Views of Students and Their Teachers. The BeJLT is published 2 times each academic year as a web site. Each of the papers is also available for download as PDF.
The full article is available here in the Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching.
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Posted on 09 Nov 2006 around 1pm by Web Admin
The OpenBooksOpenMinds project looks at research conducted by the Publisher’s Association into the use of textbooks in British Universities.
The results of the research and feedback received from students and lectures is available on this web site. This blog is a space for articles and news about the use of text books and other resources in higher education.
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Posted on 26 Sep 2006 around 11am by Web Admin
