Category Archives: General
It’s Text Selection Time of Year
If your school is like mine, the university bookstore is clamoring for textbook selections to be announced for the coming year. To that end, I want to add my voice to the many who are urging faculty to consider free … Continue reading
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Going Free
I’m starting to get more and more email traffic that puts me in contact with people or organizations who are taking concrete steps to implement an overall strategy for the adoption of free and/or open source textbooks. This post is … Continue reading
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Chronicle Articles on Textbooks, E-Books, and More
My friend and colleague Robert Talbert recently pointed me to a big collection of articles over at the Chronicle that are focused on the many issues surrounding textbooks on college campuses. Lots of worthwhile reading there. One article asks about … Continue reading
Secondary Public Offering: thru integral calculus
As promised last week, here is , now with four additional chapters that can be used for the second semester of university calculus. The link above is to the full text, all of chapters 1-8, as a Google document that … Continue reading
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One year later
A year ago at this time, I was about to embark on my sabbatical. I had drafted a couple of brief sections of what would become Active Calculus, but had almost nothing of substance written. By May, I had a … Continue reading
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Holy cow … it’s Thanksgiving
So today my blog got hacked. Someone out there seems to want to use my site to advertise getting paid for something, and now they’ve managed to do it to my Twitter feed (3 weeks ago) and the blog. I … Continue reading
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Reflections at 1/3-term
Each of the past several weeks has started with “write new post” high on my to-do list. With 90 students in 3 classes, working on new sections for the second semester of Active Calculus, and the usual laundry list of … Continue reading
Textbook Inflation
A recent US News and World Report article focuses on the high rate at which textbook costs have been rising and explains how the costs are divided among bookstores and textbook companies. While overall inflation is currently low, not so … Continue reading
Is Calculus MOOCable?
There’s been lots of discussion in higher education regarding the emergence of MOOCs: Massively Open Online Courses. These courses are free to anyone interested and are taken in an entirely online format; they are typically taught by well-known professors from … Continue reading
Opening Week
(This post was originally titled “Opening Day.” Given that the entire week rushed by before I could post it, I updated.) Classes started this past Monday at GVSU. It has been the usual whirlwind getting things organized and started for … Continue reading
