RenkeSiems<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/AutomaticTextbookBilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AutomaticTextbookBilling</span></a>: a method to lock-in universities as well as their students and to hinder the growth of <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OpenEducationalResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenEducationalResources</span></a>. Although it's not mentioned in this report, there is of course a second automated billing: as long as many publisher platforms are stuffed with trackers, behavioural data of the students are feeding shady data companies and their scoring of everything. Higher education is no shelter for learning and developing yourself anymore.</p><p><a href="https://studentpirgs.org/2024/06/13/automatic-textbook-billing-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">studentpirgs.org/2024/06/13/au</span><span class="invisible">tomatic-textbook-billing-2/</span></a></p>