The Cost of Homework
Clint Lalonde,
BCcampus,
May 07, 2020
For most students, all school work is home work these days. But when we get back to something like normal, homework will resume, and so this look at homeworks systems is useful and relevant. What are students using? According to this BCcampus survey, "the top three commercial homework systems in high use in B.C. are MyLab by Pearson, Connect by McGraw-Hill, and MindTap by Nelson (Cengage)." These are expensive, costing anywhere between $50-$105 per student. This "can impose a significant financial burden on students who are required to use them." So BCcampus is looking at open source alternatives to commercial homework systems. It will be interesting to see what they come up with,
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