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Next-gen textbooks? It's the ecosystem, not the device
I love hardware as much as the next geek, but solving our ed tech problems will require one heck of an ecosystem; hardware is a tiny piece of the puzzle.
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Textbook of the Future: The hardware
If we acknowledge that iPad is not the appropriate hardware solution for teaching students in the 21st century, then what is?
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Textbook of the Future: The challenges
It's actually cheaper to go to another planet than to give an iPad to every child.
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iBooks 2 slideshow
In an event this morning in New York, Apple introduced iBooks 2, an update to the popular e-reader for iOS devices that adds textbooks. Check out our hands on to see how the new features make...
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Apple launches digital textbooks
At an Apple press event in New York City, executives from the company announce a new initiative to reinvent textbooks. The new software will attempt to unify online databases and the printed word...
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Apple's textbook plan's biggest flaw is that it's tied to the iPad
Apple may aim to reinvent the textbook market, but its efforts so far don't show that it wants to do so openly.
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Apple hopes to 'reinvent the textbook' via iPad (photos)
Company unveils iBooks 2 for digital textbooks, iBooks Author for self-publishing, and an expansion of iTunes U for online courses.
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Mystery Apple event to focus on education, iTunes U, digital publishing?
The secretive Apple event planned for the end of Jan 2012 has attracted claims that it involves the textbook and digital publishing industry.
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College textbooks: Forget the campus bookshop, shop online
Campus bookstores will want all students to take advantage of their offers and book availability. But the online marketplace will yield a cheaper result, provided you get there before the academic...
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The textbook racket
Bought textbooks recently? If you have, I'm sorry. If you haven't, I'm jealous.
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B&N NOOKstudy now available along with new, used and rental textbooks
The college textbook market has changed quite a bit since I was paying hundreds each semester for books. Barnes & Noble gives you several ways to get textbooks for college, including digitally...
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Did Macmillan finally get e-textbooks right?
Just when I was about to lose faith in the emergence of real, useful, interactive textbooks with smart DRM, Macmillan may have just come along to save the day. ZDNet's Larry Dignan posted the...
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Macmillan's DynamicBooks demo: Textbooks to the 'Wii era'?
Macmillan, a prominent book publisher, launched DynamicBooks, interactive textbooks that are one part book and one part Wikipedia.
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More e-readers - more misconceptions
You know what most of our administrators and teachers listened to on their way home today? All Things Considered. And you know what they're going to be asking for tomorrow? Kindles to replace...
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The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
Who called this one? Oh right! That would be me! OK, maybe I was hoping for something a bit more sweeping than this, but it's a step in the right direction.
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Some 40,000 college students studying on a Flat World
Instead of paying $100 for the textbooks you need in a class, Flat World claims its customers pay an average of $18. In addition to the free download students can buy a PDF version, a printed...
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CA digital textbooks initiative falls flat
Here is California's review of digital high school textbooks. As AP reports, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been promoting the idea that schools would use these free texts as a way to save money...
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While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back...
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The American Textbook Accessibility Act
Yesterday, I posted some thoughts about Arizona State University's use of the Kindle in a pilot program and the heat the school was taking over the inability of blind students to use the devices....
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Chegg.com is the Netflix of textbooks
The New York Times ran an article this past weekend on Chegg.com (short for chicken and egg), a growing textbook rental service. That's right, textbook rental. How many college students buy used...
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