McCombs TODAY

Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 7
An experiment soon to be underway at The University of Texas at Austin will shift certain classes entirely to e-textbooks. Beginning next semester, for the initial pilot phase of one to two years, the university will cover the electronic materials for students enrolled in a handful of courses in largely quantitative subjects such as biochemistry and accounting.

McCombs Accounting Professor Michael Granof is a textbook author and chairman of the University Co-op. He publicized his diagnosis of the textbook market’s ills most recently last year in a New York Times op-ed. The Times article “caught people’s attention,” he recalled. Interested publishers contacted the university, and Granof helped bring the stakeholders to the table. The final pilot has significant support from the student leadership as well as key figures in the administration.

Read more about the e-textbook pilot on InsideHigherEd.com…