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That kind of policy around textbook reuse doesn’t work well. Information is changing and teaching from 10 year old textbooks is the same situation public school
by Spartan-S63 4y ago
That kind of policy around textbook reuse doesn’t work well. Information is changing and teaching from 10 year old textbooks is the same situation public schools have (though, their challenges come from underfunding).
For some fields, use open source resources would likely work better and embrace the living nature of that particular field. For others, I think setting price ceilings or allowing schools/governments to negotiate pricing (similar to the new Medicare drug negotiation) would work better in keeping the price of textbooks down.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoCalculus (and even calculus pedagogy) hasn't meaningfully changed in the past decade. You can still teach students the basics of chemistry or art history with an older book. Yes, some classes like genetics, epidemiology, and c++ teach content that's been completely reinvented in that time, but the majority of 100-200 level classes could easily use older books rather than requiring Pearson's latest edition.