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.
Cengage Learning added additional features to its MindTap Mobile app, including the ability to download textbooks onto smartphones in 10 seconds or less.
A new survey from CampusBooks.com analyzes student loan debt, textbook costs, use of electronic devices and more.
Beginning this fall, Kentucky State University will provide all of its students with free e-textbooks for their courses in an effort to boost student success rates by providing equitable access to course materials.
RedShelf and Ed Map have partnered in a move that will make the former's e-reader and more than 380,000 titles available to Ed Map clients.
The company bills its course creation tool as the world’s largest database of teaching materials available to instructors in higher education.
The launch of SUNY OER Services should make high-quality educational resources more accessible and affordable to more students in the New York state higher education system.
OpenStax's free, peer-reviewed textbooks will now be available through the panOpen platform.
SoftChalk has updated its digital curriculum authoring platform, SoftChalk Cloud, with a new e-book creation tool and publishing options, among other improvements.
Gale has added a new archive, American Fiction, 1774-1920, to its Primary Sources program.
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