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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prescribing a text is much different than prescribing a bunch of home made and not finished materials.

[b]Textbooks and anthologies go through a scholarly peer review process in order to be published.[/b] To publish a textbook, you couldn't just collect a bunch of county level employees and type up some worksheets.

Its very interesting because from a platform standpoint a physical textbook is very one dimensional. Its hard to update and expensive to produce. The more graphics and visuals the more expensive it becomes. There is no interactivity. On-line offers a host of options, can cheaply integrate visuals and info graphics, can cheaply be updated and kept modern, can be integrated into interactive tools.

The problem is with the content, as the higher quality review and gatekeeping process driven by basic economics of textbooks is gone with on-line materials. [/quote]

That is no guarantee of quality, though. There are plenty of textbooks with errors. There are also plenty of just plain lousy textbooks -- especially in math.[/quote]

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