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thephyber on Feb 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: How California campuses are fixing the problem of ...

> This semester though I’m forced to purchase a $200 textbook just so I can turn in my homework through some online system

Walled gardens encroaching on education.

Can you mention what system it is? There's a few thousand entrepreneurs on this site that might be interested in disrupting broken business models like that one.

dsfyu404ed on Feb 15, 2018 [–]

Probably Pearson My$subjectLab. Educators hate it too.

There exist free alternatives at least for math but it's kind of a MS-office vs libreoffice situation.

trillic on Feb 15, 2018 | [–]

My profs write and grade their own problem sets. Turn them in via email or Canvas. There are other alternatives.

fjsolwmv on Feb 16, 2018 | | [–]

You go to a rare school that isn't a scam.

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