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 ...

Purdue University has been offering its Interviewing Principles and Practice course for 27 years, and has used the same textbook for all of those years. The course has one of the highest enrollments ...

Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks, which until now have been limited to print publications. The policy ...

Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 ...

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 ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Digital textbooks are slowly gaining traction ...

Courseload has reloaded—with a little help from its friends. The Indianapolis-based digital textbook company completed a new round of fundraising in April that its CEO says gives the company the cash ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...