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College Taps Open-Source App to Solve Costly Paper Chase

Publication:E WeekDate:Sep 12 2006
Reporter:Lauren Gibbons Paul

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The 160 first-year medical students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine used to receive a boatload of printed course materials during their first weeks in school—four cases' worth of paper per student, in fact.

Printing costs were sky-high. So it wasn't surprising when state budgetary officers zeroed in on printed course materials as a prime opportunity to slash.




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