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.
eSchool News
MAY 21, 2025
A standard security awareness training recommendation to prevent successful phishing scams has been to pay close attention to the source email and double-check that any hyperlink came from a trusted source. Crack IT teams and in-house cybersecurity infrastructure are rarely part of the program.
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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.
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.
eSchool News
JULY 9, 2021
Whether they’re talking about one-to-one computing initiatives, digital textbooks, using “smart” interactive whiteboards and 3D printers in classrooms, or moving to full-scale “flipped” instructional models, educators are excited about technology’s potential.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Curly Bracket , from Ashoka fellow and Swedish social entrepreneur Johan Wendt, is a combination textbook and graphic novel that builds students’ computational thinking skills. “In the book, Curly doesn’t solve her problems using any super powers; she simply pays attention to her studies and learns as a coder would learn.
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.
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