[Osdc-edu-authors] Fwd: [OER-advocacy] Counter-post on the danger of forced e-textbook purchasing

[carolyn fox]

I'll try to write on the subject asap.  As a former (lowly) adjunct history
instructor at a community college and state college, I can attest that
instructors do not always have free reign on whether to adopt a textbook or
not or even which textbook they use.  Department deans often required the
use of a textbook and often had already selected the textbook to use, even
though such history textbooks are an outdated mode of instruction and
acquiring historical knowledge.  The adoption of history textbooks has been
an ongoing battle wrapped up in politics for many years at the secondary
level and higher education across the country (and world) (
http://www.brianscollier.com/classreadings/Problems_of_Bias_in_History_Textbooks.pdf).
 Too many sticky moments, topics, and people in history....

Mary, you're quite right in saying that there are plenty of angles to cover
the required use of textbooks (print or digital) from pre-kindergarten to
graduate school.

Carolyn

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg <
greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't -- I'm just on a mailing list with her.  Happy to reach out though.
>
> --g
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Mary Bitter <mbitter at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Wow is right. Thanks for passing this along.
> >
> > Greg, do you know Ariel? Think he'd mind if OSDC did a re-post? If not, I
> > think there are plenty angles to feature this content without being a
> strait
> > re-post.
> > MAB
> >
> >
> > On 06/05/2012 06:01 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> >
> > Wow. This is the kind of ridiculous overreaching that Big Textbook will
> get
> > away with if we let them.
> >
> > --g
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: "Ariel Diaz" <ariel at boundless.com>
> > Date: Jun 5, 2012 3:24 PM
> > Subject: [OER-advocacy] Counter-post on the danger of forced e-textbook
> > purchasing
> > To: <oer-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com>
> >
> > Hello Everyone!
> >
> > I'm not sure if you saw, but a couple of weeks ago, Tom Malek, VP at
> > McGraw-Hill, wrote a guest post on Forbes outlining their plan to try and
> > make e-textbook purchasing 100% required by billing students through the
> > bursar's office. Naturally this is a huge threat to students, and to the
> > future of open educational content.
> >
> > I wrote a counter-post, which is now live on forbes.com:
> >
> >
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/06/05/are-free-e-text-books-the-future-or-new-fashioned-copyright-infringement/
> >
> > I imagine a lot of you will be interested.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ariel
> >
> >
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