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Direct linkStephen Puklin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The traditional textbook model is problematic for students who either buy expensive textbooks and add to their already considerable student debt, opt out of buying expensive textbooks, or opt out of enrolling in courses known to require expensive textbooks. Switching to open textbooks directly addresses these problems by decreasing costs, removing…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Open Educational Resources, Adoption (Ideas), Teacher Characteristics
Rill, Josef – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation examined the relationship of student textbook purchasing practices to student success and satisfaction in selected general education undergraduate courses at a Florida public community college. The study utilized secondary data sources, specifically bookstore purchasing data, student records, and student satisfaction survey…
Descriptors: Textbook Selection, Purchasing, Academic Achievement, Student Satisfaction
Peer reviewedGriggs, Richard A.; Jackson, Sherri L. – Teaching of Psychology, 2017
Given their high cost, many students no longer buy textbooks for all of their courses, impacting their learning and performance in these courses. This is especially prevalent at community colleges. Open (digitally free) textbooks constitute one solution to this problem, but the latest national survey of college faculty found that 66% were not…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Introductory Courses, Community Colleges
McCann, Lee I.; Immel, Kathy R.; Kadah-Ammeter, Tammy L.; Adelson, Sarah K. – Teaching of Psychology, 2016
Introductory psychology students at a technical college, 2-year community college, and a regional university rated how important textbook chapters or topics were to them now and in the future and how interesting they were. Importance and interest ratings were highly correlated, and the whole course was rated of greater importance and interest than…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses, Psychology, Technical Institutes
Hiraldo, Carlos – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2008
Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community College. Their students self-identify with various nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Not only do students adopt diverse identity markers, but they also come to their classroom with variant skill levels. It is difficult…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Faculty, Textbook Selection
Deutch, Charles E.; Jurutka, Peter W.; Marshall, Pamela A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2008
The authors teach upper-level science courses in cell biology, genetics, and biochemistry at a public, four-year "community university" that serves a demographically diverse population of traditional and nontraditional students. In this article, they describe some of the issues they have found to be particularly significant at their "community…
Descriptors: Textbook Selection, Course Content, Computer Software, Science Instruction
