Accessibility Attention Textbooks 
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
In order to ensure that all students – no matter their zip code – have access to high-quality learning resources, we are encouraging districts and states to move away from traditional textbooks and toward freely accessible, openly-licensed materials,” U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.
Edsurge
JANUARY 9, 2018
Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them. “I I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says.
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Edsurge
APRIL 22, 2019
Among its main social-impact missions is to ensure that educational texts—print or digital—are accessible to every learner, regardless of impairment or disability. If we can push that accessibility work upstream to the publisher, all of a sudden that book is born accessible,” says Turner. “If
Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. But don’t expect to see them on screens just yet.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2020
So Hardy and a colleague decided to create their own lab manual—and make it open access. Much of the attention that open educational resources have earned focuses on their low cost. But OER advocates think open access course materials hold another kind of promise for students, too. “It was not good at all,” Hardy says. “I
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