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"For Goodreads, too, the growth curve has been significant — nearly 6.5 million actions published to Facebook since the app’s Timeline launch, in fact.
Reading 2.0 - Musings on the publishing revolution
Oregon school kids really seem to like iPod Touches (or should that be “iPods Touch”?). Two different, unrelated projects have come to light over the last few months using them to boost kids’ reading abilities. In the Canby School District, every third and fourth grade student has been issued an iPod Touch , which they use for reading and math exercises.
Oregon schools find iPod Touch improves reading, math skills in students | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
v. 22 #6 The Future of the Textbook « Against-the-Grain.com
Etextbooks are the latest and, some would say, last major eBook category to finally start opening up to active experimentation and sales development worldwide. Over the last year or so we have seen a number of new and innovative business models, pricing ideas, and interactive or “born digital” products being explored by major Publishers as well as new market entrants.
Open Content in Practice -- THE Journal
When Open High School of Utah started up in 2009, there were no textbooks to order, no buildings to construct, and no classrooms to outfit. The traditional "classroom" as we know it was overlooked in favor of a virtual environment that not only didn't require physical facilities but also didn't rely on age-old conventions like textbooks. Teacher-Developed Materials
When I’m not blogging away about technology for the Bits Blog, I’m also an adjunct professor at New York University in the Interactive Telecommunications Program . The program is a technology-focused graduate course, so it came as no surprise when four of my students walked into class in early April with fancy new Apple iPads in hand.
Replacing a Pile of Textbooks With an iPad - NYTimes.com
Today Moodlerooms announced a partnership with Cambridge Global Grid for Learning that allows faculty and students to access content from Cambridge University Press, Reuters, Corbis, and other content providers from within Moodlerooms’ Joule platform. As far as I can tell, this partnership is roughly similar to ones that Blackboard has previously announced with McGraw Hill and NBC.
LMS Vendor/Textbook Publisher Partnerships | e-Literate
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 ] OER include different kinds of digital assets.
This is the story of Time To Know , an enigmatic Israeli startup that has somehow managed to remain under the radar of Israel’s tightly knit startup scene.
Israel's Time To Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom
Hey, What About the ‘Net? | Symtext
Interesting post this morning in The Chronicle of Higher Education. An opinion piece from David Lewis (dean of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis University Library and assistant vice president for digital scholarly communications at Indiana University) makes the by now well-known case that we need to lower textbook costs. The Chronicle’s tweet goes a tad further:It should happen because a book properly hooked into the Internet is a far more valuable collection of information than a book not properly hooked into the Internet.
The line between book and Internet will disappear - O'Reilly Radar
CDWG - Using E-books in School: Negotiate, Train, Pilot, Expand -- THE Journal
21st Century Classroom: Transforming the TextbookThe report you are looking for is now hosted on our Next Is Now site .
Digital Textbook Sales in U.S. Higher Education — A Five-Year Projection « The Xplanation
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There are now 27 textbooks, partly or completely aligned with state standards, with two more in the wings, following completion last week of the second phase of textbook review by a state agency, the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN).No textbooks are to be found in this honors biology class at Empire High School in Vail (Ariz.) School District. Five-year-old Empire High School, a low-slung, seven-building complex in the foothills east of Tucson, has plenty of new technology, including a one-to-one laptop program for all 850 students and a completely wireless infrastructure powered in part by rooftop solar panels.