After reading Jesse’s article, I feel that development and learning is a good idea because it can reduce the student’s tuition to a certain extent. For example, the average student in Uvic is about 600 and the textbook is about 100. Some will be more expensive between 200. Because my major is computer science, there are fewer courses using textbooks. I am still very lucky in this regard. Some of my friends are studying biology or psychology. They use textbooks more often than my majors.
If the school and the publisher can lower the price of the textbooks, then it will reduce the burden on the students. Of course, I can understand that editing a textbook is a lot of money, so I can understand their pricing e-books. The price is much cheaper than the physical book but the price is not cheap, because the student would rather spend 50 on a meal than on a textbook because many times the book will never be opened once the class is over. And if you encounter a textbook revision, the book is even harder to sell to others.
Another important reason why many students like to learn online is that they generally don’t need to spend money to buy textbooks. Many of the learning materials are from online students. They can read and learn for free. This greatly facilitates students and helps students save a lot of money.
It is also good if the school and the professor can change a learning style. For example, it is also a good way for the professor to put all the contents of the course into the ppt or provide some free network resources. Just like KPU does not use a textbook, and it is also a very good education system.
Of course, the development of the network is also important. If there is no network, then there will be no open learning today. So developing the network can also make it easier for students to learn knowledge and help professors to teach well, so I think Open learning and development of the network are very important they must be a combine relation to improve together.
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