Shortly after his world history students began a pilot program testing a digital textbook for the iPad, Ken Halla noticed something different: His students were actually reading their textbooks. “How ...

The digital textbook of tomorrow probably doesn't look like a book at all. Imagine, instead, an online service that remixes itself on the fly for consumption via any device, with concepts tailored to ...

The federal government is looking to bring digital textbooks to all American students within the next five years. As part of the plan, the Federal Communications Commission and the United States ...

Last summer, someone suggested I test out technology for a grant that covered the use of technology in the classroom, and I roped Dan into submitting a grant proposal, and we won. We tested out the ...

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. That is, until she ran the pilot ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "'Open' has become a definite thing. According to the latest public accounting, there were nearly ...

Kui Xie receives funding from Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Department of Higher Education. Nicole Luthy receives funding from the Ohio Department of Higher Education, the Ohio Department of ...

“While no one was looking, someone revolutionized the textbook,” says Kno about its twin-screened tablet PC. Is this just misplaced overconfidence? Deep pocketed VC backers think not. “While no one ...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has an ambitious plan to reduce the cost of education in California. He intends for the state to develop digital open source textbooks for high school math and science ...

The debate as to whether digital textbooks can stack up to traditional print textbooks rages on, intensified by seemingly incessant research and data exposing the outrageous costs of traditional print ...