Comment on Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
db2@lemmy.world 1 day agoBut it makes perfect sense that we’d need a new textbook and that the old one couldn’t possibly be used because the word “the” in the 3rd paragraph of page 6967 is now in a different font.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh, that’s not the only thing that’s changed; they’ve also randomly re-ordered the questions at the end of the chapters so that the old one COULDN’T possibly be used.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
How dare you not give your professors the kick backs they deserve!
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
Dad taught college and got tired of this game. So he wrote his own book and students could print copies in the print shop for $10.
Now that I’ve gone on to teach college I’ve continued that tradition, except online for $0.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Damn! That’s respectable AF! Your dad and you continuing this amazing tradition!! Thank you!
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Back when this happened to me, I had three courses over three semesters that taught from the same $300 textbook.
By the time I got to the third course, they’d moved to a new edition.
So I went to the library and photocopied all the questions pages and the answer key. While I was there, I discovered the library also had the instructor’s manual, so I gave that a quick read too.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
What I’m gathering is always check the library for the instructors notes!
Also can’t they technically just give you a PDF with the questions. I never bought text books cause of that. I don’t think I’ve bought a textbook for school after highschool.
For me there were some text books you could just download from the author’s website.