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Kindling a Course
December 21, 2009, 10:51 am
By Stan Katz
As some readers of this blog will recall, my fall-term undergraduate course in the Woodrow Wilson School is one of a small number of Princeton University courses using the Amazon Kindle device for course reading assignments. Each of the 19 students enrolled in “Civil Society and Public Policy” was given a Kindle DX, the large-screen version of the e-book reader, and all of the books assigned were provided free of cost as Kindle files. The reading assigned in this course is probably somewhat unusual, since all of the assignments are either monographs or chapters from book-length collections of essays. This meant that each student was given 15 complete e-books, since the entire book was provided even if only one chapter was assigned reading. In the past, I have asked the students to purchase most of these books, while the separate essays were provided in either a course pack or (more recently) as e-reserve material.
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