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Pearson, a major textbook publisher, continued its push into digital education on Monday by introducing a service that allows instructors to create e-textbooks using open-access content and Pearson material. Wired Campus Full Article
A 1,700-page physics classic is undergoing a major mobile makeover at Georgia Tech. Researchers in the Georgia Tech Research Institute have already replaced the first chapter of The Infrared Handbook with an in-house app. And they have plans to create at least two more apps as they turn a static physics textbook into an e-book, […]
Rice University this year started an unusual textbook-publishing venture whose books are free to download thanks to a mix of grants and revenue from optional “add ons,” such as homework problem sets. Wired Campus Full Article
Over the last few years, as a fifth of American adults have gotten ereaders, ebooks have transformed the book market and reading landscape. The library market is no exception. There’s now an array of established vendors and emerging options for libraries to choose from in order to deliver ebooks to patrons. In my job as […]
Apple iPads are lagging behind their hype on four-year campuses, while e-textbooks finally seem to be living up to theirs. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
The rising cost of textbooks—along with the rise of easy-to-use publishing tools online—has helped drive the popularity of open source materials and professors’ taking a do-it-yourself approach to textbook publishing. Here are three professors who wrote their own textbooks and are distributing them free. Wired Campus Full Article
Campuses will see if electronic textbooks can bring down textbook costs and satisfy student demands, thanks to an Internet2 project eCampus News Full Article
As more college students have found themselves adrift and in debt following graduation, colleges have found themselves under increasing pressure to prove their value to stingy legislators and cost-conscious shoppers. Now one university is working with a major educational content company to shift some of that accountability from the institutions that enroll students in courses […]
Tablet devices and the publishing they enable are leading us to reconsider what constitutes a textbook, and they certainly change the landscape of what it has traditionally meant to write and publish one. EDUCAUSE Full Article
During the first-ever Digital Learning Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski unveiled an ambitious plan earlier this year to get schools to switch from print to digital textbooks by 2017. Education Week Full Article
