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May 25, 2017
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jaromp
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"BYU researchers find free textbooks are just as effective as costly ones"
At first I thought it was satire, but it's real:
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/education/college/byu/byu-researchers-find-free-textbooks-are-just-as-effective-as/article_5f3fbc35-404c-51f3-bbe7-68907de208fd.html
I guess it's good that they're finally getting around to applying the scientific method to figure this one out...
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"BYU researchers find free textbooks are just as effective as costly ones"
jaromp
Playmaker
5/25/17 5:21pm
About half of my graduate courses had no text book, and instead we just used
cheezedawg
5/25/17 5:25pm
ALL of my graduate classes had extremely expensive (for me) text books.
zia cougar
5/25/17 5:32pm
Yeah, the other half all were super expensive. Good thing my employer paid for
cheezedawg
5/25/17 5:37pm
Ditto. Materials for grad school were much cheaper than for undergrad for me.
vagabonder
5/25/17 6:03pm
Cheaper -- What/where were you guys studying in grad school?
zia cougar
5/25/17 6:06pm
MA in Education from U of Arizona.
vagabonder
5/25/17 6:11pm
CS at Georgia Tech
cheezedawg
5/25/17 6:28pm
Georgia Tech? That's far
TNT
5/25/17 7:14pm
You wouldn't assume freely available textbooks
wildcoug
5/25/17 5:25pm
Uh, nope. I'm in technology, and the very best resources available are the crowd-sourced ones.
jaromp
5/25/17 5:32pm
More accurate to say they're equally inefficient
Mike Honcho
5/25/17 5:39pm
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