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"MindTap is well beyond an eBook, a homework solution or digital supplement, a resource center website, a course delivery platform or a Learning Management System. More than 70% of students surveyed said it was unlike anything they have seen before. MindTap is a new personal learning experience that combines all your digital assets - readings, multimedia, activities, and assessments- into a singular learning path to improve student outcomes."

"Textbooks on ScienceDirect offer today's libraries an exciting opportunity to provide new and highly valuable service to their patrons. Faculty can finally assign a textbook and/or various text/references and provide all students with easy access, giving them equal chance at succeeding because they have the assigned and recommended course content with no financial pressure to find or buy!"

"Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses. "

This is basically a course pack builder. It takes care of copyright clearance and offers the option for students to download as a digital file or get a print-on-demand.

"The QlikView Business Discovery platform delivers true self-service BI that empowers business users and drives innovative decision making."

Business intelligence and learning analytics have a lot in common. Just sharing a product that was mentioned in an EDUCAUSE list.

Slides from a guy who's very active on the etexts list.

"Through open education resources promoted by these two bills, materials would be free online or for about twenty dollars in hard copy, as stated in the background of each SB 1052 and SB 1053."

Some states, including California and Washington, are passing bills to mandate the use and creation of open textbooks.

"We just had some hands-on time with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 here at MWC, and it seems it just arrived over at the FCC just recently. This tablet has the same on-screen setup as the 5.3″ version, yet isn't capable of making phone calls. It sports a 1.4GHz dual-core processor and will ship with Google's Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)."

Finally, a tablet with a really precise stylus.

"Emily Furgang, Doctoral Candidate in Occupational Science and CIDD Fellow shares how a traditional Blackboard course was transformed into a problem-based, hybrid Sakai course (part online, part face-to-face instruction). For students, Sakai becomes "a universal meeting place.""

Panel discussion at the HigherEd Tech Summit.