Too few schools are exploiting digital instructional content for all of its benefits. While many in education continue to perpetuate the decades-old textbook-centric approach to providing students and teachers with instructional materials, the gap is widening between what technology allows …
California Embraces Open Source Digital Textbooks
California schools have cracked the spine on open source, free digital textbooks in an attempt to save money and to make educational resources easier to access and update.
http://www.edutopia.org/california-open-source-digital-textbooks
Don’t Buy Your Textbooks: Rent Them!
UToronto bookstore launches textbook rental pilot project.
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/05/27/don%E2%80%99t-buy-your-textbooks-rent-them/…
Textbooks, Wikipedia and Primary Source Research
This article shows an experiment on how to use Wikipedia in your classroom. M. Byrne says: “A couple of weeks ago I sent out a Tweet that my students were working on a comparison of Wikipedia articles to articles in …
Textbook Publishers Embrace iPad Apps for Education
Textbook publishers have already enlisted the third-party services of developers to build adaptations of textbooks for the iPad, the Wall Street Journal reports. McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson and Kaplan have struck deals with iPhone and iPod touch developers ScrollMotion Inc. …