I once had a class where, day one, the professor said something like, "If you don't want to buy the book, that's fine with me. I can't tell you where to find a copy, but maybe one of your classmates can." Someone raised their hand and started rattling off a few useful websites.
Fuck Pearson
I had a stats professor who told us to not buy the book. He would print out hand outs and gave them to us every class. He was super nice. One time a girl brought her bunny to class because she had to give it medicine on a schedule and he made her do show and tell lol.
My Analysis professor once did basically the same thing in class. She said that we should never go to these websites, since they were illegal. Based lady.
I really think Khan Academy should publish a textbook that everyone can use. Cheap or free, doesn't change every year, allowed to print out yourself.
Isn't one of the Gates kids doing some educational reform?
I don't think the problem is the availability, it's probably the adoption. But I'm not in higher ed.
Exactly. We already have stuff like OpenStax. Great content, but comparatively little adoption by faculties.
I had a professor who kept all the materials from the books that he wrote on his website. He was cool with students printing the html pages and bringing it to class.
Me fighting my instinct to say * Hello. Based department? *