A Student's Frank Perspective on College Textbooks Today
"How Can an Amazing Introductory Chemistry Textbook be Free?"
Webinar featuring David Ball, Professor of Chemistry at Cleveland State University, and Sharon Koch, of FlatWorldKnowledge, a leading publisher of open textbooks.
"This new report investigates those high textbook prices for common courses at schools across the country. ...this report contains recommendations that, if enacted, could save students billions of dollars by ensuring the materials that students buy for their general education classes are free instead."
A key finding is "...that nearly 5.2 million U.S. undergraduate students spend a total of $1.5 billion dollars of financial aid on textbooks every semester, or $3 billion per year."
