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    from the biggest selection of . Save time, save money, and stop lugging around all those books! Make the switch with eTEXTBOOKcity, and college online textbooks on the web. With one quick search, compare the prices and formats of all digital textbooks purchase online textbooks today!
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    from the biggest selection of . Save time, save money, and stop lugging around all those books! Make the switch with eTEXTBOOKcity, and college online textbooks on the web. With one quick search, compare the prices and formats of all digital textbooks purchase online textbooks today!
Robin Cicchetti

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • Why electronic copies? Well, they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts, making a bulk purchase more feasible
  • An Indiana company called Courseload hopes to make the model more widespread, by serving as a broker for colleges willing to impose the requirement on students. And it is not alone.
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  • The real champions of the change are the college officials signing the deals.
  • "Our game plan is to bring the cost of textbooks down by 75 to 80 percent."
  • In its standard model, Flat World offers free access to its textbooks while students are online. If students want to download a copy to their own computers, they must pay $24.95 for a PDF (a print edition costs about $30)
  • Robin Cicchetti on 27 Oct 10
     
    Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.
Yvonne Barrett

Flexr 1.1.4 - 9 views

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  • Yvonne Barrett on 01 Feb 10
     
    "CK-12 has developed an online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook. "
Carla Shinn

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. - 19 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 24 Feb 15
     
    "Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all say millennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same group's proclivity to consume most other content digitally. A University of Washington pilot study of digital textbooks found that a quarter of students still bought print versions of e-textbooks that they were given for free."
Carla Shinn

20 different ways to buy ebooks, digital comics and etextbooks - 28 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 08 Oct 13
     
    20 of the most popular destinations for buying, downloading and renting digital books, comics and textbooks
Alida Hanson

Out of Print - 10 views

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  • Alida Hanson on 21 Jan 13
     
    "Out of Print highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. K-12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations. With a focus on the ultimate impact on student learning, the report provides examples of lessons learned from recent digital and open (OER) content initiatives by leading states and school districts and offers comprehensive recommendations for government, industry, and educators to ensure that the inevitable shift to digital instructional materials improves student achievement and engagement and efficiently uses scarce resources."
Carla Shinn

How a Printed Book Becomes a Digital eBook - 21 views

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  • Carla Shinn on 04 Jan 14
     
    "The Apple iPad may be one of the biggest updates to the modern classroom in recent memory, but what good is a new tablet without any content? How do you turn the tried-and-tested (and loathed?) textbooks that you're accustomed to using into a digital eBook? A new visual guide lets you in on the 'behind the scenes' of how a standard printed book becomes an interactive eBook."
ADAM CARRON

CDWG - Using E-books in School: Negotiate, Train, Pilot, Expand -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • ADAM CARRON on 20 Jun 12
     
    21st Century Classroom: Transforming the Textbook In 21st century classrooms, blackboard chalk is on the endangered list, the pop quiz has been replaced with clicker questions, and bowling alley technology (overhead projector transparencies) has disappeared, thanks to digital projectors and document cameras.
Katy Vance

Flip This Library: School Libraries Need a Revolution - 4 views

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  • If we want to connect with the latest generation of learners and teachers, we have to totally redesign the library from the vantage point of our users—our thinking has to do a 180-degree flip.
  • This learning commons is both a physical and a virtual space that’s staffed not just by teacher-librarians but also by other school specialists who, like us, are having trouble getting into the classroom and getting kids’ attention.
  • specialists such as literacy coaches, teacher technologists, teacher-librarians, art teachers, music teachers, and P.E. teachers
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  • In the physical space, we enter a room that’s totally flexible, where furnishings can be moved about to accommodate different functions and groupings.
  • the learning commons is both a giant, ongoing conversation and a warehouse of digital materials
  • —from ebooks to databases to student-generated content—all available 24/7 yea
  • Imagine a learning environment in which the multimedia world of information fed individual students’ needs, and where on-demand digital textbooks/multimedia/databases are available 24/7 and under the control of the user.
  • examples of one-way communication.
  • But in the new learning commons, homework assignments and library Web sites offer two-way communication.
  • Directive adults have been transformed into coaches; direct teaching has been transformed into collaborative inquiry.
  • On another day, parents may be invited to the learning commons to observe a jointly designed medieval art fair created by a classroom teacher, the art teacher, and the teacher-librarian.
  • The experimental learning center aims to improve teaching and learning by offering professional development sessions and resources that are tailor-made to each school’s greatest needs.
  • The teacher posts assignments on a blog that’s linked through an RSS feed to individual students in the class, each of whom can access the blog through an iGoogle page or another personal home page.
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