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Direct linkFoster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Learning is valuable, but in Africa it is more than that: It is prohibitively expensive. In Ethiopia, where the per-capita income is about $100 a year, a single textbook at Addis Ababa University can cost $50. In order to get more textbooks to students in developing nations, two people are leading an ambitious project to produce and freely…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Information Systems, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
