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May 25, 2017
5:25:28pm

wildcoug 3rd String

You wouldn't assume freely available textbooks

May sacrifice something in quality?

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wildcoug

Bio page: wildcoug
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Last login: Jan 14, 2020
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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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