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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...