Veronika Bondarenko
Textbooks to be made available free online
EIC November 5, 2012B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education plans to give free access to most popular textbooks By Veronika Bondarenko Photos by Julian Giordano VANCOUVER (CUP) — The B.C. government wants to offer online textbooks for free to university students, but there’s still a fair bit of homework to do before the project becomes a reality. The B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education plans to commission textbook authors or developers to put together online textbooks for popular undergraduate courses. As a condition of funding, they’ll be available through a Creative Commons licence that makes them free for anyone to use, reuse and revise. A nonprofit…
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British Columbia U-Passes to go electronic in summer of 2013
EIC June 11, 2012By Veronka Bondarenko Next year, expect the U-Pass to change again VANCOUVER (CUP) — Beginning in the 2013 summer term, the current version of the U-Pass will be replaced with a Compass electronic fare card that will require students to…
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