Macmillan’s newly announced DynamicBooks textbooks are a huge change for the stodgy, ultra-conservative world of academic writing. The digital textbooks give professors the power to reorder chapters, ...
Purdue University has been offering its Interviewing Principles and Practice course for 27 years, and has used the same textbook for all of those years. The course has one of the highest enrollments ...
As digital textbooks gain popularity around the country, there are still parts of the U.S. and other industrialized nations that do not currently benefit from the obvious advantages of e-reading in ...
Courseload has reloaded—with a little help from its friends. The Indianapolis-based digital textbook company completed a new round of fundraising in April that its CEO says gives the company the cash ...
“The digital divide will grow even larger without the financial support necessary to make this move a reality,” said one reader. From calls to action from major education organizations, all the way to ...
For the past two years I’ve experimented with a new pedagogical tool in my undergraduate courses: collaborative digital textbooks. Using MediaKron, a WYSIWYG website builder developed at Boston ...
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