When Unglue.it first launched its platform to strip the copyright status of books once a crowdfunded, pre-determined amount of money had been raised, skeptics spoke out. Not against that concept of "ungluing" a book, of course, but against the idea that ordinary readers would be willing to donate money to a publisher to make a book permanently public domain. Happily, Unglue.it … [Read more...] about De Gruyter, Unglue.it Work Together to Crowdfund Open Source Textbooks
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McGraw-Hill LearnSmart Compatible with Any Higher Ed Content
The selection, approval, and adoption of academic texts can be a lengthy and carefully vetted process, especially in the public school sector where variables such as the appropriate nature of the content and budget come into play. There is often somewhat more leeway when it comes to adopting texts at the higher education level, with many university professors and department … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill LearnSmart Compatible with Any Higher Ed Content
CourseSmart: “Connecting Content, Curriculum, and Delivery”
While some sectors of the education industry are still waiting for the explosion of digital textbooks that can provide budget-friendly solutions with immediate updates to new information, e-textbook providers are already making improvements to the design concept of an academic ebook. It's no longer enough to create a digital edition of a standard academic textbook; today's … [Read more...] about CourseSmart: “Connecting Content, Curriculum, and Delivery”
Grassroots Effort by Teachers Discovery Creates Low Cost Digital Textbooks
The winning combination in education is to produce high quality, creative material designed to enhance student learning and outcomes, all while meeting the strict guidelines of a budget that would be better suited for a summer camp. One of the initial hopes that the recent growth of digital publishing and device accessibility would create were inexpensive digital textbooks, but … [Read more...] about Grassroots Effort by Teachers Discovery Creates Low Cost Digital Textbooks
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kno Partner on K-12 Digital Textbooks
While digital textbooks abound throughout the country at the college level and new companies spring up almost monthly to provide digital-editions for the thousands of titles in use in US higher education, one of the markets that has been slow to adopt digital textbooks--at great expense to already cash-strapped school systems--is the K through 12 public school arena. Due to … [Read more...] about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kno Partner on K-12 Digital Textbooks
New Digital Pilot Program from Internet2 and EDUCAUSE
A new pilot program has been put into place to allow more universities and higher education institutions to work within the online media model for student learning. This program, developed by EDUCAUSE and Internet2, includes over fifty publishers, notably the CourseSmart platform. GoodEReader spoke with Cindy Clarke, Senior VP of Marketing for CourseSmart, about the goals for … [Read more...] about New Digital Pilot Program from Internet2 and EDUCAUSE
McGraw-Hill Interactive eBook Learning Tools Released for Canadian Students
One of the most innovative educational concepts to come out for student personal use this year was the concept of an interactive and adaptive learning interface, embedded directly in the titles that students use. These dashboards from companies like Kno and CourseSmart actually provide feedback for the learners that let them know how effective their reading and learning time … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill Interactive eBook Learning Tools Released for Canadian Students
Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks
Babur Habib, co-founder of educational software and digital textbook designer Kno, was on hand at Tools of Change to speak with GoodEReader about its recent launch of the Kno Advance platform, the anticipated follow up to the earlier release of the Kno Me interactive learning dashboard.With this week's announcement about Kno Advance and its three distinct components, … [Read more...] about Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks
Kno Unveils New Advance Platform to Scale Publishers’ Textbooks
As digital textbooks incorporate newer interactive features at a fraction of the cost of their print counterparts, one key aspect of e-textbooks is now the need to catch them up to the speed of other forms of digital publishing. Just as other ebook users have enjoyed the frenetic pace of other forms of ebook creation, digital textbook and educational software developer Kno will … [Read more...] about Kno Unveils New Advance Platform to Scale Publishers’ Textbooks
Digital Learning Aimed at Preparing Learners for College
McGraw-Hill's recent launch of its LearnSmart program, created with Denmark-based Area9 and geared towards higher education, helps students and educators personalize learning for the individual user by using data to provide feedback on how time spent interacting with learning material results in evaluation.Now, McGraw-Hill is taking the built-in expertise that LearnSmart … [Read more...] about Digital Learning Aimed at Preparing Learners for College
SUNY System Parnters with Kno for Digital Textbooks
Another university system has taken on the daunting task of digital textbook adoption and publication, this time the highly regarded State University of New York (SUNY) press. SUNY has partnered with textbook produce Kno to bring even more options to the academic landscape for college students this spring by working to digitize thousands of SUNY press titles.This collaboration … [Read more...] about SUNY System Parnters with Kno for Digital Textbooks
Digital Textbooks Come to Vocational Education
As the reach of digital textbooks expands into various levels and stages of education, from preschool through medical school, one of the underserved areas of academic ebook publishing has been vocational education. Now, Pearson UK and Gutenberg Technology have teamed up to release digital textbooks in several areas of career education, while making the titles available on the … [Read more...] about Digital Textbooks Come to Vocational Education
New York Candidate Sees Digital Textbooks As Budget-Friendly Plan
Arguably, the New York City school system has its share of problems. Any system educating that 1.1 million children in grades kindergarten through high school spread out across nearly 1,700 schools obviously would. But one frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to take Mayor Michael Bloomberg's seat sees a lot of their problems being solved by better use of funds, namely in … [Read more...] about New York Candidate Sees Digital Textbooks As Budget-Friendly Plan