@paulg Most textbooks suck. Good students discover material that is good on their own mostly.
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@paulg: Textbooks are expensive for the same reason enterprise software is bad: purchasing decisions are not made by the users.” Exactly -
@paulg the elimination of enterprises as group purchasers w/ unaligned/conflicted interests must happen everywhere, especially ed and health
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@paulg also the oligopoly thingThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg same problem in healthcare. Insurance pays so no point in shopping around. Screws those without insuranceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Not to mention self-interest. ‘For this course, you all need to buy the textbook I wrote and will barely be teaching from.’Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg: Textbooks are expensive for the same reason enterprise software is bad: purchasing decisions are not made by the users.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg It's worse. Product teams have to end up building stuff to get past gatekeepers, knowing that the feature will not be used. :/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg by that logic any money spent by parents on their child's education is bad because .. well the child didn't make that decision. -
@nitin Parents don’t generally sell out their kids for a kickback. Just one example: http://lukethomas.com/the-textbook-industry-greed-its-getting-worse/ …@paulg -
@flipzagging@paulg agreed but that wasn't the argument. User choice was the argument. And I contend it has obvious holes.
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@paulg same with employer-purchased health insurance.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg: Textbooks are expensive for the same reason enterprise software is bad: purchasing decisions are not made by the users.”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg 50% agreed on textbooks. Users by definition are not qualified to assess what they have not learned. New analogy neededThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Exactly, and Publisher says students should quit whining & give up designer jeans to afford#textbooks http://bit.ly/1uYEIDWThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg yes, but you don't have to have overlap to fix this problem. APIs have two 'buyers': technical & businessThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg and healthcare... higher ed... 3rd party payment & decision making is the root of many evilsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg Nice in theory, but (a) profs may not have much selection to choose from, and (b) very common for students to not buy the textbook.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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