Why the students nowadays aren’t buying their texts, because the professors’ powerpoint presentation slides print-outs are, enough for them, to pass the exams, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
It’d become norm that college students don’t buy the textbooks anymore. And the reasons for it being, was it due to the economics that they couldn’t afford to? Rather, it’s how the students felt, that the textbooks they buy, are irrelevant to the courses they are, taking.
But why would the college students feel that the textbooks are, irrelevant to the courses? The professors now are teaching using powerpoint, and, a lot of the presentations, the professors took a lot of mind to creating, and already had all the information the students are required to have to pass the courses, and, the students can make their own notes off of the PPT slides the professors handed out, to use for their own systematic learning, and, this method of teaching, made the textbooks, less necessary for the students.
Another important reason, was that the evaluations of the lessons, when the areas and contents of the tests are highly corresponding to the powerpoint presentations, then, the students can prepare for the exams using the powerpoint slides, and so, most students wouldn’t spend the money to get the textbooks.
And, as the students can’t find the link between the exams and the textbooks, this also, became one of the primary reasons why they don’t buy the texts. And, if the evaluations for learning leaned towards the open-ended, the PPT are supposed to be only used as guidance for how the students learn to think, the directionality of questions they have for learning, of the discussions of the singular cases, the students would then have to collect more data to do their reports, or use the other forms of assessment measures (i.e. the exams), then, what’s in the textbooks, aren’t the keys to the lessons, and, learning no longer based off of what’s written in the texts, and thus, the textbooks became, unnecessary for the students to own.
On the contrary, if there’s the drive for increasing the knowledge bases, and in order for the students to understand the subjects completely, and the powerpoint presentations the professors provided in classes won’t be enough to suffice, then, the idealistic textbooks then become, a necessity to the success of their learning, and, buying the texts would become, the needed decisions of the students.
And so, this article dissected why the students are no longer compelled to spend hundreds of dollars to buy the textbooks they needed for their college studies, because, the professors are, spoon feeding the students their lessons, and, back when I was in school, the exams are based off of the powerpoint presentations used in our courses, and the textbooks became, nothing more than a reference, which was why some of the classmates didn’t spend all their money on the texts, and this is not good, because, the lecture notes should be used for “references” and the textbook, the main means of teaching and learning, and here, it’s, flipped.