Electronic Textbooks
E-books are being widely adopted as alternatives to traditional textbooks. Here you'll find articles detailing new developments in the area of e-book and e-textbook technologies, along with stories about institutions adopting them.
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University has set up an inclusive access model for its students, to encourage them to purchase textbooks and class materials as a bundle deal.
An education technology company that manages curriculum distribution through college bookstores, both online and on campus, has produced a new application for distributing course materials.
The University of Wyoming Libraries recently funded six faculty proposals to develop alternatives to traditional textbooks.
The merger between learning materials companies Cengage and McGraw-Hill has been terminated by mutual agreement.
VitalSource is offering free access to digital learning materials through the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester, to aid those students attending colleges and universities that have closed in response to COVID-19.
Is automatic textbook billing a good deal? Not for the students, according to a new study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, an advocate for the public interest in education.
Two faculty members from the University of Georgia have developed a lab manual for anatomy and physiology and made it available as an open educational resource.
The vast majority (82 percent) of college and university faculty are responsible for selecting course materials for at least one of their courses, yet 35 percent in a recent survey said they don’t know where to start or what to do to reduce the cost of those materials.
OER Commons, an organization focused on creating open educational resources for education, has developed a new tool for authoring OER.
Digital course materials company Top Hat is launching six new “Intro Courses” that provide a variety of learning materials and instructor resources in an all-in-one course solution.