Professors produce free text books for college! Free classes!
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-put-textbooks-online-to-reduce-costs-for-students/37677
"The rising cost of textbooks—along with the rise of easy-to-use publishing tools online—has helped drive the popularity of open-source materials and professors’ taking a do-it-yourself approach to textbook publishing. Here are three professors who wrote their own textbooks and are distributing them free."
Now how come I never had a professor like that? My books were generally $50 to $100, and at the end of the semester I could sell them for maybe $10 to $20. What a ripoff. But these professors have seen the plight of their students and are trying to help where the universities themselves are not.
http://soleralearning.blogspot.com/
Here's a nice person who has made a list of university classes you can take for free.
So, as tuition costs increase beyond the reach of most people, some are fighting back.
"The rising cost of textbooks—along with the rise of easy-to-use publishing tools online—has helped drive the popularity of open-source materials and professors’ taking a do-it-yourself approach to textbook publishing. Here are three professors who wrote their own textbooks and are distributing them free."
Now how come I never had a professor like that? My books were generally $50 to $100, and at the end of the semester I could sell them for maybe $10 to $20. What a ripoff. But these professors have seen the plight of their students and are trying to help where the universities themselves are not.
http://soleralearning.blogspot.com/
Here's a nice person who has made a list of university classes you can take for free.
So, as tuition costs increase beyond the reach of most people, some are fighting back.
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