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CampusBooks.com was founded by Alex Neal in 1998 during the height of the dot com boom. [1] The company started as an online textbook reseller. [3] In 2000, it changed its business model and became a textbook comparison shopping site. CampusBooks served over 1.5 million book price comparisons to students in 2007.
After ending services unrelated to renting and purchasing textbooks, [5] the company adjusted its business model to reflect that of Netflix's rental-based model, concentrating on renting textbooks to students, [6] [9] and Chegg expanded to a national market. [10] It later added goods and student services through corporate acquisitions. [10]
The College Board reported that for the 2007-2008 academic year an average student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies. Making high quality open textbooks freely available to the general public could significantly lower college textbook costs and increase accessibility to such education materials.
This is a list of open-source software to be used for high-order mathematical calculations. This software has played an important role in the field of mathematics. [1] Open-source software in mathematics has become pivotal in education because of the high cost of textbooks. [2]
Software4Students is an online program that provides academic software from leading software manufacturers to students. The program has been running since 2006 in the UK and Ireland. [citation needed] Full software versions from software companies such as Microsoft, Kaspersky and Adobe are available for students at discounted prices.
Moodle – Free and open-source learning management system. OLAT – Web-based Learning Content Management System. Omeka – Content management system for online digital collections. openSIS – Web-based Student Information and School Management system. Sakai Project – Web-based learning management system.
A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts. Digital textbooks are a major component of technology-based education reform. They may serve as the texts for a traditional face-to-face class, an online course or degree, or massive open ...
University students around the country have already filed back into their classrooms and have purchased their expensive textbooks. But there's a new federal policy regarding the prices of ...