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Why can’t you re-sell a “used” e-book?

The only answer I can come up with is that the booksellers don’t want it to happen.

I don’t think technology is the limiting factor.

Washington’s Open Course Library is the largest state-funded effort in the nation to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class.

. Instructors are also free to add or subtract content to suit their needs.

project head Green says, “the intellectual property license on content has absolutely nothing to do with quality of content.

they need to obtain a Certificate of authorization (COa) from the Faa before they can resume outdoor drone flights. (They are still allowed to use the UaVs indoors.)

Waite echoed his concerns: "The COa process, as it stands now, is antithetical to journalism. Permits take months. You have to apply to fly in a specific location — months in advance, mind you — and your chances of getting a permit drop if you ask for a place in restricted airspace... So the kinds of stories we can do are going to be very limited."

Full-time students, on average, spend nearly $1,000 a year on textbooks and other learning resources

A dozen grAnts – eAch worth $3,000 – Are being AwArded to fAculty members teAching in community colleges Across VirginiA to boost the use of Open EducAtionAl Resources (OER)

The grant program is one of several strategies aiming to slash the cost of textbooks for Virginia Community College students.

For the past 10 years, a growing number of community colleges in the US have begun to offer baccalaureate degrees across a range of targeted programmes including business, education, and nursing. This study examines whether community college baccalaureate policies result in an increased production of nurses — currently a policy priority in nearly every state across the country. The findings suggest that, even in the early stages of adoption, states allowing the Bachelor's of Science in Nursing at community colleges produce more nurses than non-adoption states. It also appears that these gains do not come at the expense of private colleges or public 4-year institutions. Nursing presents a unique set of opportunities and challenges and the findings reported here may not generalize to other disciplines. [aBSTRaCT FROM aUTHOR]

The iPad app allows you to organize your digital textbooks and PDFs by dragging and dropping them into “courses.” Once you open a textbook, you can swipe through the pages or navigate via a filmstrip of thumbnails up top. There is also full text search. Pages can be bookmarked and highlighted. You can also add digital sticky notes which pop out from the margins.

The highlight feature is a nice touch. You can also launch a Web or Wikipedia search based on a highlighted word

pretty solid and will compete based on the breadth of its textbook selection and pricing.

As more compAnies enter the tAblet textbook mArket, textbook prices will most likely decreAse As competition heAts up,

“Up until now, digital textbooks were a flat — no value-added PDF version of the print edition, so you’re basically asking students if they prefer an inferior product,” Mr. MacInnis said. “So it’s no surprise students weren’t interested.”

roblematic on PDF versions of textbooks, like the difficulty of highlighting and note-taking

regents who have embraced what some call a heavy-handed ideological agenda.

pressure from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank

creating a new accreditation system that would grade institutions on how effectively they deliver on promises to students,

While open-source materials are nothing new, a series of free self-contained textbooks designed to compete head-to-head with major publishers is. Instructors building a class with open-source materials now must assemble modules from several different places and verify each lesson’s usefulness and accuracy.

The new textbooks eliminate much of that work,

In the next five years, OpenStax hopes to have free books for 20 of the most common college courses.

it won't work on Apple Inc.'s iPAd or iPhone, even though people cAn reAd Kindle books on both devices. This restriction is intended to drive Kindle device sAles, sAys AmAzon.

The campuswide student survey, which is part of MSU’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative and is expected to be completed in September

But students can save money with open textbooks only if faculty are willing to adopt them.

The purpose of this study is to establish the perceptions of post–secondary faculty and students who used open textbooks in place of traditional textbooks in their courses.

Some of the cost associated with open texts includes instructor preparation time.

it appears that enrollment is leveling off. according to a new policy brief released today by the american association of Community Colleges (aaCC), there has been an enrollment decrease of almost one percent since fall 2010.

Despite this slight decline, community college enrollments remain up 21.8 percent since fall 2007