Digital Textbooks in BYOT

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'Banning Is Not the Answer' to Mobile and Social Tools in Schools -- THE Journal

Before choosing to restrict the use of social and mobile tools in schools, policymakers and education leaders have to consider the negative impact such restrictions will have on learning. That's the premise of a new policy report released jointly this week by more than a dozen prominent education associations and advocacy groups. http://thejournal.com/articles/2012/04/11/banning-is-not-the-answer-to-mobile-and-social-tools-in-schools.aspx?=THE21
ASCD (Association for Curriculum and Development) has taken statistics from a variety of sources and coalates it into a nice infographic about students, mobile learning, learning methods and what high school students want in mobile learning.

Infographic - What do High School Students want from mobile tech

http://educationaltechnologyguy.blogspot.com/2012/04/infographic-what-do-high-school.html
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/12/11-places-to-find-free-ebooks-for-you.html

Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Places to Find Free eBooks for Yourself and Your Students

Flat World Knowledge provides free textbooks created by experts in various academic fields. A quick look at the student section of Flat World Knowledge reveals that these textbooks are already being used in few dozen colleges across the United States. Learn more in the video below.
We are the world's largest publisher of free and open college textbooks.

Welcome | Flat World Knowledge

http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

7 Myths About BYOD Debunked -- THE Journal

http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/11/09/7-byod-myths.aspx Lisa Nielsen, the author of "Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning" and "The Innovative Educator" blog, believes it is time to shatter a few myths about students bringing their own devices (BYOD) to school.
Recently, in response to an article describing ways to support students in BYOD , a reader who goes by WAHS SBTS made this comment: “I am a technology resource teacher.

7 Myths About BYOD Debunked -- THE Journal

http://thejournal.com/Articles/2011/11/09/7-BYOD-Myths.aspx?Page=2

E-Textbooks: 4 Keys to Going All-Digital -- Campus Technology

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/08/03/e-textbooks-4-keys-to-going-all-digital.aspx When Daytona State College , a 53-year-old former community college in Florida, now a state college offering a four year degree, set out to implement an all-electronic book program two years ago, its goal was to drive down the cost of textbooks by 80 percent. The school is well on its way to achieving that goal, and along the way it made some discoveries about what it takes to make a successful transition to e-texts. "We got it going in the right direction," said Rand Spiwak, CEO of eText Consult and Daytona State's recently retired CFO, who led the school's e-text project.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

Open educational resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Open educational resources (OER) are digital materials that can be re-used for teaching, learning, research and more, made available free through open licenses , which allow uses of the materials that would not be easily permitted under copyright alone. [ 1 ] As a mode for content creation and sharing, OER alone cannot award degrees nor provide academic or administrative support to students. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However, OER materials are beginning to get integrated into open and distance education . [ 4 ] Some OER producers have involved themselves in social media to increase their content visibility and reputation. [ 5 ]