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Perhaps the worst post-secondary education scam of all time is the price of textbooks. Students spend upwards of $200 for a hardcover textbook — only to find that they can’t sell it used the next year because a new edition has been issued, with extensive changes like a new cover or slightly different page numbers. Professors often pad their paycheques with textbook sales while also requiring their own students to buy the book. Well, it seems that the online world is finally responding. Website called uses the Creative Common license to allow students and professors to add and edit material as long as the original author is credited. Instead of organizing material in a linear manner, like textbooks that list topic after topic, the site presents content in smaller “modules” that are connected to larger courses or collections.

This allows students and professors to access information according to topic. According to its website, “Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.” Professors can also build reading packages by selecting material from various sources and adding their own, creating a custom-made, downloadable textbook for their students — for free!

The discipline was renamed in the late 19th century primarily due to Alfred Marshall from 'political economy' to 'economics' as a shorter term for 'economic.

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It has received $6 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, according to an in the New York Times. “We are changing textbook publishing from a pipeline to an ecosystem,” Baranuik told the Times.

“If I had finished my own book, I would have finished a couple years ago,” he said. “It would have taken five years. It would have spent five years in print and sold 2,000 copies.” Since posting it online there have been 2.8 million page views and has been translated into Spanish. Other online options include a collaboration between six leading textbook publishers, and the Massachusett Institute of Technology’s. CourseSmart is a website where students can purchase digital copies of their textbooks straight from the publishers (ensuring the latest edition) at a discount of up to 50 per cent, which can still cost a student in the $100 range. 4,325 books are available in 741 courses and 109 disciplines.