As you may know, I am looking forward to the day when our “textbooks” will be digital and students can purchase them at a fraction of what they pay
Category: Education
The Problem of Pricing: Digital Textbooks are NOT cheap!
I have written extensively [1. Â See: Digital Book Readers (Kindle?) in Academia (an outline of thoughts), Digital Textbooks: Fairness in Pricing after DRM is Hacked,
Digital Education Resources: What price, adoption?
Access to the homework tool (included in the purchase of a NEW textbook) would cost students $10 if they chose to instead by a book used. Of course, that would only give them access to the homework assignments. There was an additional fee ($30 I believe) if they wanted to have the “PLUS” features, including the hyperlinking to the appropriate section of the text.
Digital teaching resources: How do we measure success?
Those that read regularly, or listen to our podcast, will know that I love technology, and that I also spend a good bit of time
Books, we got Books!
OKAY… I talked about this is today’s podcast at http://Getthenext.com. I have been sitting on this for two years now, thinking it wasn’t “ready” but
Economics Dooms Health Care Reform to failure.
In the last post I wrote about the perversions of incentives that cause the problems in the health care system. Â Let me point out that
iPad Demands…
Writing as an academic, I desperately want to get my hands on (the demand data for) the iPad.  Specifically,  I wonder about the “pre-order” demands that have
Customer Service/Recovery at it’s Best with Medtronic!
(I am currently teaching a Service Operations Management course for our MBA program, and part of the requirements for the course is for students to
Digital Book Readers (Kindle?) in Academia (an outline of thoughts)
This post is from my “Archives of Incomplete Thoughts” but I wanted to share them with you all… I have been pondering for a while
DIY Paper Models of Space Shuttle
Thanks to @gugnheim for tweeting this: As you should know, I am a child of the space age, and a fan of space anythings for
