Teachers making their own digital textbooks - 3 views
http://edudemic.com/2011/12/teachers-textbook/
South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.
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Lighten that backpack: Obama administration challenges schools to embrace digital textbooks - The Washington Post - 3 views
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Maung Nyeu on 01 Feb 12Arnie Duncan, Education Secretary, and Julius Genachowski, FCC Chairman, setting up an ambitious plan to get digital textbooks in schools within five years. This requires ccollaboration among the Government, business, and educators.
Textbooks Finally Take a Big Leap to Digital - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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Are digital textbooks the beginning of the end for the college bookstores? 39 percent students surveyed used digital reader. We may be reaching a tipping point here.
Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age - 0 views
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Recommendation 1: Complete the Shift from Print-Centric Textbook Adoption Practices to Digital Resources within Five Years Recommendation 2: Develop a Vision and Roadmap for Completing the Shift 2a: Eliminate Unnecessary Regulations and Enact Supportive Policies 2b: Invest in Infrastructure and Devices to Support the Shift 2c: Ensure Effective Implementation of Digital Policies. Recommendation 3: Ensure a Vibrant Marketplace for Digital and Open Content
Calculating the Costs of Digital Textbook Initiatives in Africa - 0 views
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Interesting article about the cost components (not just device pricetags) of using digital textbooks. The article considers Africa, but the framework can apply anywhere.
Many U.S. Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks - 0 views
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Giving all students in a school district iPads could have some really positive results. Having all textbooks combined on a tablet has the potential not just to aid in convenience, but can also allow for students to access more up to date texts. I think that there is also a lot to be said for the potential of an iPad to help engage students in the classroom.
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While in theory, the "allow for students to access more up to date texts" is a fantastic purpose for putting content on line and not burning it to a CD or printing the pages, it is the text book adoption laws in each state that publishers battle with every cycle, many of which won't allow for updates or changes to the one they purchase for the length of the adoption.
BBC News - Digital textbooks open a new chapter - 0 views
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Preliminary results from a US military "digital tutor" project suggested the time needed to become an expert in information technology could be reduced from years to months, said the White House.
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An unscrupulous government could relish the fact that everything a child learns is controllable through one, easily manipulated, digital portal.
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South Korea initiative for digital textbooks - good news?
New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views
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"As professors mix and match book chapters, case studies, and journal articles, the site keeps track of how much royalties are going to cost. Once the book is made, students have the option of buying it digitally or paying an extra $10 (with an additional 3 cents per page if the book is more than one hundred pages) for the textbook"
The Future of "Flex Books" -- On-line textbooks and beyond? - 1 views
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This group provides free and open source materials for K-12 environments. Customizable and aligned to student/teacher needs. Seems like physical textbooks only have a short time left.
Report Recommends Shift to Digital Educational Resources Within 5 Years -- THE Journal - 2 views
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The latest report on digital textbooks
Elsevier partners with edX to provide free versions of textbooks to MOOC students | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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Kind of ironic, but "old tech" using new tech to promote sales of old tech. Basically Elsevier is giving students in an edX course a free, static version of one of its textbooks. Students then see a link to purchase a discounted, dynamic version--and it seemed to bump up sales! Also interesting is that edX gets a cut of the book sales--maybe another avenue for them to become sustainable, in addition to charging for certification.
Digital textbook mandate creates a wrinkle | TBO.com - 0 views
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Illustrates the equity concerns we discussed in class
USA Classrooms (K-12) Moving Towards Digital Textbooks Over the Next 5 Years? | PadGadget - 2 views
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Interesting plan coming out of "Leading Education by Advancing Digital Commission" meeting last week.
Textbooks to iPads--it's not your parents' education - 1 views
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Related to section on how iPads are currently being used in a California school. making short videos to taking photos of complex formulas displayed on a blackboard for later review. Language students record themselves reciting lessons, and then upload the files to their teachers' drop boxes for critique. And math teachers use iPads to videotape students working through problems, explaining how they arrived at the solution and thereby demonstrating mastery of a lesson.
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Here's the blog from the school's iLab http://hillbrookilab.com/
Apple Announces next generation of textbooks - 1 views
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Check out how Apple partnered with textbook publishers to revolutionize the education space with this new model. Just announced today!
California testing iPads as algebra textbooks - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 4 views
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A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads
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"This is a seminal moment. It marks the fundamental shift from print delivery of curriculum to digital," said John Sipe, vice president of K-12 sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Students with iPads will have instant access to more than 400 videos from teaching experts walking them through the concepts and assignments
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One example of using Ipads instead of math books. There is a brief mention of incorporating video, but the article does not go into detail about the format of the digital text books
The classroom goes digital - 2 views
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The demand for e-Learning resources derived from the economic burden imposed by the frequent revision of textbooks and spiralling prices of scholastic texts, according to the textbook and e-Learning Resources Development Report released by the Working Group on textbooks & e-Learning Resources Development in 2009.
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In February 2010, a fund of HK$128 million was established by the Legislative Council to create a three-year program promoting an e-Learning pilot scheme. Of that total HK$68 million will be disbursed among 20 primary schools and 30 secondary schools for e-Learning.
Novelties - Multiple Screens Built for Textbooks as E-Books - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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designing e-textbooks
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