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Unfortunately many courses now give assignments through sites that are only accessible by purchasing a textbook with a unique access code
So in every other country if they tried something like that, students would kick up shit, government would step in and sort it
So it's either, too pussy to stand up for yourselves, or you're living in a dictatorship
Which is it? 😂
i don't know who's downvoting you. As an american who had to go through that shit, you're not at all wrong.
I paid $1000 for books my first semester of college back in 2007. I felt so burnt and violated I never bought another textbook. I made it through the rest of undergrad, a masters, and a PhD in biochemistry by checking out books from the library, borrowing textbooks from friends, and going sailing. When I taught I made it a point to teach my students about all the ways they can avoid becoming a victim like myself.
What could you have possibly learned from sailing though?
Our profit margin demands you buy over-priced books from our shop
College material monopolies should be illegal, just like all other monopolies. Want to give students an education in the real world? Let the free market determine textbook prices.
I love how he doesn't even bother trying to consistently maintain the facade. It's a *Chef's Kiss
This reminds me of when Weird Al told Canadian (or maybe Australian?) fans who wanted to watch his movie, "there's Very Probably No way to do this. I know you probably have a TORRENT of questions, but I don't have time to answer them right now."
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3's from file sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA
I often usually post the chapters we use for my classes in case students haven't bought the book yet. I also have a hard $60 limit for books that I use.
I once had a class where, day one, the professor said something like, "If you don't want to buy the book, that's fine with me. I can't tell you where to find a copy, but maybe one of your classmates can." Someone raised their hand and started rattling off a few useful websites.
I had a stats professor who told us to not buy the book. He would print out hand outs and gave them to us every class. He was super nice. One time a girl brought her bunny to class because she had to give it medicine on a schedule and he made her do show and tell lol.
My Analysis professor once did basically the same thing in class. She said that we should never go to these websites, since they were illegal. Based lady.
Respect.
I had a professor who kept all the materials from the books that he wrote on his website. He was cool with students printing the html pages and bringing it to class.
Me fighting my instinct to say * Hello. Based department? *
based professor
I really think Khan Academy should publish a textbook that everyone can use. Cheap or free, doesn't change every year, allowed to print out yourself.
Isn't one of the Gates kids doing some educational reform?
I don't think the problem is the availability, it's probably the adoption. But I'm not in higher ed.
I see some profs trying to choose good books, but they don't seem to be able. But I'm also not in higher ed.
The California Community College I went to allowed you to filter classes in the schedule by whether they offered ZTC - Zero Textbook Cost or OER - Open Educational Resource.
I have had uni professors sign books to make sure people actually bought new books and not used ones (he wrote them); unfortunately for him i had access to toluene to get pen ink off; did the same to all of my peers; Fuck those kind of professors
Buy/collect used books off students after they finish the course... Remove the ink, resell undercutting him by a ton and make a huge profit!
Nah I'm fine with spreading how to remove the sign, there are already enough people capitalizing on education here
Time to sell toluene! ~taps temple~
What an absolute buffoon.
Do what happened if you bring a book to class already signed?
He threatened you to either buy a new book or he would make your uni career hell, one of my mates did it, at the last exam he sent him back 5 times, the last time he went to take the exam the coordiator said "what else have you got to ask to him; he told you everything in your course; [insert name] give me the paper" he signed the paper and sent him off; the prof. Still gave him only 60/100.
I still want to slap that piece of shit.
After that i taught other people in the uni to do that; he tried to mitigate by writing over the printed title of the book; hoping that any tampering would be evident; toluene didn't touch the toner, so it didn't work
Edit: grammar mistake (thanks mac)
hi 👋
just fyi:
"teach" is one of those words in English that has a different suffix for it's past-tense: it is "taught".
Eg. "They taught me to sew."
"teached" is improper.
Note: not to be confused with "taut" which is pronounced the same.
:)
Thank you for pointing out a mistake in a very polite way while being informative. You deserve an applesauce for making a better internet 👏.
I had originally wrote taught but i confused it with "pulling something tight" so i went with what would get the point across even if it was wrong.
Edit: fixed it now
Do Italian professors know their students' names? Over here, two countries to the North, no professor knows anything about their students.
If you mean Germany: Depends. At my smaller university quite a few professors knew my name and others had something I would consider a friendship.
Sounds like a pos.
Also that sounds very illegal, no complaints have been filed or anything?
Here in italy no one gives a quater of a fuck about that kind of shit. Good thing is that the same can be said when after the last exams he always needs to call a tow truck since he won't have tires, not even cameras were able to stop them, and i'm quite sure other professors turn a blind eye to them since they also hate him.
I knew you were italian as soon as I read that lol. Basically my uni life too
Sites like that saved me thousands getting my psych degree. God bless professors like this. Also the ones who were like, "the new edition of the book you need for this semester is $500, but you can get the previous edition for $5 at this site. Here's copies of the pages that were changed." or "I photocopied every page you need for this semester from the book for all of you."