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Student Research: Can Googling Replace $168 Intro to Psych Textbook?
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Students are taking the battle against high-priced textbooks into their own hands. This week, 11 University of Cincinnati seniors in the psychology program presented at an Educause event a comparison of the content of traditional college texts, one of which costs $168, to content they found for free on the Web.
The research effort was undertaken as part of the Digital Bookshelf Project, the University System of Ohio's effort to make textbooks more affordable.
For the latest research project, which took place in fall 2010, the students compared the value and educational quality of two current textbooks with the draft of a new textbook they found free online, along with what they could find through online search engines.
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Comment by Una Daly on February 16, 2011 at 1:12pm -
Thanks for sharing that, Ken, what an inspiring story!!
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