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Friday, July 29, 2005
Online University Lowers Textbook Costs with 'E-Books' - Leslie Olsen, WISH-TV
With hundreds of thousands of students heading back to college soon, News 8 has been investigating the escalating cost of textbooks this week. In an effort to find a solution, one university is virtually textbook-free. Eric Wright and Nesia Murrell are students at the University of Phoenix, Indianapolis. It's an accredited on-line university for working adults. Wright and Murrell students don't lug heavy backpacks full of hardbacks to class. Their textbooks are digitized. “My old undergrad days, highlighting in the margins, highlighting stuff, writing - you can still do that. You just print out what you’re after and you can continue to study in ways that you've always studied,” said Wright. Phoenix students here pay a $70 resource fee per class. “If a typical course load for a student is four to five courses per semester, then their fees for books is $600, $800, something in that range. With us, that same course load would be $280,” said Simon Lumley, vice president, University of Phoenix, Indianapolis.
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