This summer, Tennessee’s Austin Peay State University is piloting a program to put textbooks in the hands of students from the first day of class.
Remote proctoring company Proctorio has added two plagiarism detection tools to its Learning Integrity Platform.
In a recent survey, 54 percent of faculty respondents said they believe adding more technology to their classroom would definitely increase student engagement.
For the first time in a long time, combined spending over the academic year on course materials, technology and school supplies came in under $1,000, according to a recent survey by the National Association of College Stores.
Blackboard has introduced the Blackboard Reporting Stack Developer Tier, the first release on the Blackboard Data platform, which gives colleges and universities direct access to data sets to analyze their learning ecosystem and support institutional goals.
This fall, McGraw-Hill is launching a pilot incorporating on-demand tutoring into its digital courseware.
California State University's Affordable Learning Solutions initiative has partnered with Lumen Learning to make courseware from the open educational resources provider available to faculty and students across the system.
All of Pearson's 1,500 higher education textbooks in the U.S. will now be "digital first."
A new project has been launched to help universities, researchers, libraries and publishers make more —and better — use of open-access book publishing in humanities and the social sciences. The Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs is a partnership led by Coventry University in the United Kingdom and including the University of California Santa Barbara Library, among other institutions.
Pearson has created an Amazon Alexa skill for its Revel digital courseware product, allowing students to access text audio, homework reminders, class schedules and more via Alexa-enabled devices.