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.
Oakton Community College in Illinois is working with Pearson to provide more affordable course materials to students.
Nonprofit consortium Unizin is expanding its suite of education technologies and services through two new partnerships with edX and Cengage.
Cengage today introduced OpenNow, a digital content platform for general education courses based on curriculum-aligned open educational resources.
Algorithms can help faculty discover and select open educational resources for a course, map the concepts covered in a particular text, generate assessment questions and more.
Five members of Congress have introduced a new law to encourage colleges and universities to try out or expand their use of open educational resources.
The Courseware in Context Framework today released a number of new features aimed at improving usability.
High-quality, openly licensed textbooks from OpenStax will now be available to students in the United Kingdom, thanks to a partnership between the Rice University-based nonprofit and The Open University's UK Open Textbooks project.
Ohio's Eastern Gateway Community College is turning to Barnes & Noble Education for an array of digital content and other services, including bookstore operations, learning management system, predictive analytics and digital courseware.
Historians and teachers in California are working together to develop free, open, online instructional materials for teaching history and social sciences in K-12.
Students looking to save money on textbooks can now rent select McGraw-Hill Education titles through a pay-as-you-go service from iFlipd.
