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The Best E-Texts (App) Created by Academics
Rowe, professor of English at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Elliott Visconsi, associate professor of English at Notre Dame, have co-designed The Tempest iPad app, they re-imagined reading....
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Why are Textbooks Bad for Education?
This post written by Justin Marquis Ph.D. was first published on OnlineUniversities.com : Why are Textbooks Bad for Education? An interesting video in the Edutopia “Big Thinkers” series, featuring my...
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Re-imagine Education – Learning from Scientists Directly
About one year ago, as Apple announced its interest in digital textbook market, WIRED had an article which might not raise your awareness : Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students....
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8 Exemplary Open Textbooks and The Meaning Beyond Bringing Cost Down
For decades, college students have been exploited by publishers of introductory textbooks. But thing are changing, now there are several organizations bringing open textbooks to students. Saylor.org,...
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The History of Education and Textbooks [Infographic]
by Jessica Owen, Boundless (blog.boundless.com) To understand where we’re heading in education and edtech, it’s important to look back at our educational roots. As we searched for some of most...
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Learning Content in the 3-5 Year Horizon
This slide deck is from the Next Is Now webinar delivered by Dr. Rob Reynolds on April 25, 2012. In his presentation, Rob explores key Internet trends affecting education, and makes projections...
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6 Major Recommendations for K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age
Founded in the fall of 2001, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association serving, supporting, and representing US state and territorial educational...
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Inclusive Learning Design to Rescue One-Size-Fits-All Flipped Classrooms (#OER)
In a world going digital, the accessbility of content does not seem to be a problem, right? Wrong! Many digital materials are NOT matching to different learners! Watching videos is worse than reading...
View ArticleHow to Create an eBook The Open Source Way
by Bryan Behrenshausen, first published on OpenSource.Com, licensed with CC BY-SA Astute readers will have noticed that we’ve begun publishing our “Open Voices” eBooks in the ePub format. Now, some of...
View ArticleWriting Textbooks at The Push of A Button
The first novel written by a computer has already been published four years ago. The future of content is increasingly becoming the stuff of science fiction. Not so sure? You must read this post from...
View ArticleThe Accessibility of Learning Content for All Students, Including Students...
WASHINGTON, DC (June 23, 2014) – The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) recently released a policy brief for state and district education leaders focused on considerations and...
View ArticleTop Tips for Creating Accessible EPUB 3 Files
DIAGRAM stands for “Digital Image And Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials.” Established in 2010, The DIAGRAM Center is a research and development center whose goal is to dramatically change the...
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A portable document is a collection of content items (e.g. pages, chapters, modules, articles) structured as a single, self-contained logical unit. Individual items can consist of text, images,...
View ArticleThe Network Science Textbook
Network Science by Albert-László Barabási Network Science, a textbook for network science, is freely available under the Creative Commons licence. Follow its development on Facebook, Twitter or by...
View ArticleWhat Makes Disruptive Digital Textbooks?
Free Textbooks Spell Disruption for College Publishers – this is how Technology Review talked about Boundless Learning, a Boston company that has begun giving away free electronic textbooks covering...
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