I'd like to see more ability to pick and choose from textbooks, to be honest. Last semester a professor I took a class with had us buy over $100 worth of books, but we only read portions of many of them. It would have been nice to only have to purchase those portions. And I think it could avoid a lot of faculty thinking they need to create a completely new textbook in a field that hasn't changed that much (even some technical fields), if they could select the most appropriate chapters from several existing textbooks.
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