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Tyler Wall

Free mobile learning ebook - 1 views

Did you download the ebook?

started by Kathy Schwarz on 26 Apr 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 27 Apr 12
anonymous

EdNET Insight | Textbook Rental: Web-Rejuvenation Rocks Post-Secondary Market - 0 views

www.ednetinsight.com/...cks-post-secondary-market.html

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  • anonymous on 10 Jun 11
     
    "The Rental Phenomenon In the past two years, the post-secondary textbook rental market has exploded. Driven by the outcry over book prices, federal legislation, readily available pricing information on the Internet, and sophisticated web-based rental management platforms, old and new competitors are disrupting the $10 billion college textbook business. Book rental isn't really a new phenomenon-a few college stores have been renting books since the Civil War. The National Association of College Stores (NACS) proclaimed fall 2010 as the "Year of the Rental." Players include long-timers like Follett and Budgetext, institutional stores and fast-growing start-ups. BookRenter, started in 2008, netted $40 million from investors in a funding round this past February. Chegg, started in 2007, has raised $200+ million in venture capital and attracted senior management from Yahoo and Netflix. The same drivers are growing trade in used books, eBooks, and online instructional content. Rental is also driving new business models for sourcing and distributing educational materials that may carry the industry forward into digital. Having book inventory isn't necessarily required-at least one high-flying firm, BookRenter, exists mainly as an online marketplace. Read on to see how this change in distribution is impacting the higher education market. Next month we'll look at what all this means for K-12."
Tyler Wall

For Young Readers, Print or Digital Books? | MindShift - 1 views

blogs.kqed.org/...readers-print-or-digital-books

ebooks reading

shared by Tyler Wall on 05 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The implication? Parents and teachers should choose basic e-books like the Kindle or Nook over enhanced e-books, such as the iPad, if they want a more literacy-focused co-reading experience with children. Prompting kids with questions that relate to the text, labeling and naming objects, and encouraging kids to talk about the book’s content from their own perspective all elicit kids to be more verbal, and can lead to improved vocabulary and language development, the study states.
  • But if “engagement” is the objective, the issue gets murkier. When it came time to measuring “child-book” engagement, based on the child’s direct attention and touch, more kids showed higher levels of engagement for the e-books than the print books, though a majority were equally engaged by both book types. Children also physically interacted with the enhanced e-book more than when reading either the print or basic e-book.
  • On the other hand, when measuring “overall engagement” —a composite of parent-child interaction, child-book interaction, parent-book interaction, and signs of enjoyment — an interesting trend emerged: 63% of the parent-child pairs were as engaged reading the print book as they were when reading the e-book (both types); 6% of the pairs were more engaged with the e-book than the print book, compared to the 31% of pairs that were more engaged with the print book than the e-book.
Jeff Hamilton

Apple in Education - ebooks - 3 views

www.apple.com/education

shared by Jeff Hamilton on 19 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Jeff Hamilton on 19 Jan 12
     
    Very cool announcement. It will be interesting to see if textbook prices will drop? I have been super impressed with some books on the iPad and others are super lame. With the new authoring tool it will be interesting to see what we can do with our own content!
  • Chris Aitken on 20 Jan 12
     
    I think this post puts the iBook announcement (and Apple's role in education) into perspective: http://www.hackeducation.com/2012/01/19/apple-and-the-textbook-counter-revolution/
Christie Robertson

PressBooks | Simple Book Publishing - 0 views

pressbooks.com

ebook publishing

shared by Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Christie Robertson on 25 Oct 13
     
    This tool is suggested by BCampus for publishing an open textbook
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