Hi, > You teach at West Point?
I teach at USM (Southern Mississippi). Completely different part of the country, but you have a point: they care about price, too. Maybe more so; the local paper has been running a series of articles exposing tricks the textbook publishers use to gouge ever more money out of students, with some university departments going along. I was getting more at the fact that students won't care how free it is if they can't use it, and if the first thing they see is an open source v. closed source thing, which I'm fairly sure most of them won't care about, they're likely to pass over it. Honestly, I think most of my department would ignore it. Rearranging it might make it more appealing. That's all I meant to say. > Since students are generally immature, they > don't usually see the long-term benefits of one choice or another, > but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to make them aware of it. I do agree, and I wonder if I said anything about this to my classes. regards john perry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
