Please consider attending one of these sessions if you’re available! Recent studies have found that when faculty and students use collaborative features like shared annotations, feedback is more positive.

The two sessions are identical; one will be held at the Davis Family Library and the other will be held at the Armstrong Library. If you can make it, please let me know which date/time you plan to attend. I’m at cmacfarl@middlebury.edu, 802-443-5018, Davis Family Library 209.

The sessions will be held:
-Tuesday, September 4, 3-4 pm in Davis Family Library 145 (lower level), or
-Wednesday, September 5, 11 am – 12 pm in Armstrong Library computer lab (lower level)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Carrie

When a student clicks on the link they will be able to purchase a looseleaf, three-hole punched, black and white version of their book directly from McGraw-Hill. The price of the print version is $28 for books under 600 pages, and $34 for books over 600 pages. (Students can print on their own too, either through their LIS account or on a personal printer.)

These copies are ground shipped from a single location in Ohio, so it should take 2-5 days for students to receive their print version. Here are a few examples. The sample to the right is for one textbook but the one below shows three textbook options, all which are required for the course. Students have the option to order all three for printing, only the textbook, and so on.

Courseload has put together a series of online tutorials for faculty. If you prefer a self-paced, visual introduction to the Courseload e-Reader, try their tutorials collection: Courseload Instructor Training.

Here are a few numbers:

Each semester, the College Bookstore orders between 1,000 – 1,300 individual required and suggested titles for our courses

In the Fall 2011, the Bookstroe ordered 31 textbooks by McGraw-Hill

This was 2.4% of our overall textbook titles.

The average cost of these McGraw-Hill titles was $113.

Based on the number of students enrolled during the fall 2012 semester in classes using McGraw Hill eTextbooks, the cost per student use will be roughly $30.

Roughly $300 for the required textbooks for Spanish 101 and German 101

$198 for a Chemistry textbook

$197 and $174 for two different Economics textbooks

$150 and $130 for two Psychology textbooks    

$42.70 for an Education Studies textbook

$10.70 for a book of poetry

29 faculty members

21 different courses and 74 sections (See a list here.)

circa 575 estimated students