Do the extra pedagogical features in textbooks have any value to our students?
Source: chronicle.com Posted By: tesee11 5473 days ago
Ordering textbooks from publishers must be a more complicated process than I would imagine, since our bookstore usually starts asking in April for our fall-semester orders. I know many faculty members disappear in the summer, like migrating creatures, so the long lead time may simply arise from the bookstore's desire to clarify orders and handle problems while we're still hanging around the campus.
Nonetheless, I invariably have way too much to do in April — senior dinners, awards banquets, ceremonies,....