precisamos deste tipo de pesquisa ai no Brasil ...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cable Green <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:05 PM Subject: [OER-advocacy] How Much Do College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks? To: OER Advocacy Coalition <[email protected]> Greetings OER Friends: *(1) *Please read: How Much Do College Students Actually Pay For Textbooks? <http://mfeldstein.com/how-much-do-college-students-actually-pay-for-textbooks/> My initial thoughts: - It needs a response - from US PIRGS? - It leaves out the analysis of the top 50 highest enrolled courses - the courses most students take - and where textbook costs are highest. - Phil also differentiates between 'Textbook Prices' and 'Student Expenditures'. See the comment from Cynthia Alexander. - Arguing that textbook costs should be based on "expenditures" and not listed "prices" is problematic, I think. Students should be able to have access to 100% of their learning resources on day 1 - at a reasonable / affordable price - and not have to share their textbook with another friend - or comparison shop of the Internet to get access to their learning resources - or go without a textbook. - More important - when prices for textbooks are high - this happens *(credit: US PIRGS):* - 2 in 3 - students say they decided against buying a textbook because the cost is too high - 1 in 2 - students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due to the cost of textbooks *(2) *Has anyone in our community thought about putting up a web page that has the following information (publicly available) for the highest enrolled 250 courses? - Name of highest enrollment 250 courses - Enrollments (in highest enrolled courses) by institution, state, nation - Most widely assigned text book (in highest enrolled courses) - Various retail prices of said textbook (from low to high, new vs. used vs. rental) - Link to and cost of open textbooks* (OpenStax, etc.) *($0) and/or link to comprehensive set of relevant OER.. for each of these highest enrolled courses I've talked with many of you about #2. I'm considering running a project at CC to collect this data - first in the US - and then in other countries as useful. Is anyone else working on #2? Anyone have any of this data? Would this kind of data be useful to you? Once we had this data - I would be interested in discussing what a campaign might look like to get this information into the hands of students, faculty, state legislators, Dept. of Ed .... and possible partner with some new allies: e.g., Road Trip Nation <http://roadtripnation.org/> and/or Young Invincibles. <http://younginvincibles.org/> Thoughts? Your colleague, Cable Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen> http://creativecommons.org/education *reuse, revise, remix, redistribute** & retain* *State of the Commons Report https://stateof.creativecommons.org/report <https://stateof.creativecommons.org/report/>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OER Advocacy Coalition" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oer-advocacy-coalition. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- *Carolina Rossini * *Vice President, International Policy* *Public Knowledge* *http://www.publicknowledge.org/ <http://www.publicknowledge.org/>* + 1 6176979389 | skype: carolrossini | @carolinarossini
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