States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks

Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:21PM (#14195847)

Pearson isn't accredited. ;)

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by theseatoms on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:36PM (#14196037)

I think that's what GP is suggesting we change.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @01:38PM (#14196055)

I hope not. I'd rather rethink the idea of accreditation.

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by LeeHwang on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:18PM (#14196487)

Why? If they are already writing the curriculum,lectures labs/homework and Professors are justing using that material and forcing kids to pay for it.

Why don't we just cut out the extremely expensive middlemen, universities and professors ?

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by Larrikin on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @02:51PM (#14196795)

I think his point was that universities that are "teaching" like this shouldn't be accredited

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Re:States are moving to cut college costs by introducing ope... by dubya on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @04:48PM (#14197844)

I don't think Pearson has such materials for upper level courses. They could probably figure out a way to be contractors for the courses no on wants to teach though, if they can find a way to work for less than lecturers do.

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