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Direct linkTomassini, Jason – Education Week, 2012
During the first-ever Digital Learning Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Federal Communications Commission chief Julius Genachowski unveiled an ambitious plan earlier this year to get schools to switch from print to digital textbooks by 2017. Dubbed the Digital Textbook Playbook, it's a recommendation for how schools could transform…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Cost Effectiveness, Technology Integration
Peer reviewedSchaffhauser, Dian – T.H.E. Journal, 2012
Even though non-print-based learning objects have been in the classroom for years, the shift to digital content has gotten more attention lately. One development that has made the difference is the Apple initiative to introduce its iBooks textbooks for iPads, generating a notable amount of buzz. That and President Obama's announcement that he…
Descriptors: Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies, Educational Resources, Textbooks
Download full textHilton, John Levi, III.; Gaudet, Donna; Clark, Phil; Robinson, Jared; Wiley. David – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one community college's adoption of a collection of open resources across five different mathematics…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Open Source Technology, Community Colleges, Mathematics Education
Schachter, Ron – District Administration, 2009
It used to be that anyone who made it through the semester without cracking a textbook was supposed to be very brilliant or very lazy. But schools across the country--driven by concerns ranging from the financial to the pedagogical--are changing that stereotype, as they switch from conventional textbooks to electronic versions of the same or…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Educational Innovation, Instructional Materials, Electronic Publishing
Demski, Jennifer – T.H.E. Journal, 2009
When superintendent Calvin Baker of the Vail School District in Vail, Arizona, substituted laptops for textbooks in Vail's first 1-to-1 high school in 2005, he saw that his district now had the freedom to purchase digital content the way he purchased digital music. "People would say, "So, what digital textbook are you going to use?"…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, High Schools, Singing, Textbooks
Dessoff, Alan – District Administration, 2010
From replacing print textbooks with digital content created by teachers or gathered from outside sources to encouraging students to explore the world around them digitally, many districts are creating a new type of student-friendly teaching and learning environment that goes beyond just adding computers to classrooms. Through a wide range of…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Influence of Technology, Educational Technology, Textbooks
