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MAY 1, 2019

Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education plan to join forces in an all-stock merger. textbook publisher if the deal is approved, with a combined valuation estimated at $5 billion. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings. Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

During the second semester of his first year as an undergraduate, Olivier Mercier was looking for the cheapest way to get the textbooks he needed for his classes. Perlego gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. Non-textbook publishers it works with include Atlantic Books and Greenleaf Book Group.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: Educational technology plays a critical role in the classroom Education technology boosts student learning Stay up to date on the latest in education technology Educational technology transforms learning by increasing engagement, personalizing instruction, and expanding access to resources.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. But in the past few years the company has suffered several setbacks—along with mounting criticism that its founding CEO, Jose Ferreira, overhyped its technology.

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APRIL 17, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has forced schools to double down on—and in some cases try for the first time—online education technologies, from digital science labs to virtual campus tours. The company’s platform guards against piracy and sharing of content, though the app supports offline reading, Sherwood says.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. /

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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MARCH 28, 2018

“Coming from educational publishing, there was a strict division between writing and editing and graphic-design work,” says Anagnoson. Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Now it’s my job.” But those materials were not ideal.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Here are three colleges that have found a way to use technology to create a more cost-effective, customized, and engaging learning experience. percent to 76.6

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MARCH 7, 2018

Read our full coverage of her remarks here.) When it comes to the education librarians receive, a lot of it still focuses on literature and reading, writing and media literacy, said Mega Subramaniam, an associate professor at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. When Dempsey typed, “I hate you!”

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JUNE 22, 2017

Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced it has agreed to acquire DreamBox Learning® , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Librarians and media specialists are now tasked with not only ensuring students and educators have easy access to essential physical media and textbooks, but also efficiently managing an infinite amount of digital resources.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. What are the educational technology trends in 2024? Education is experiencing a technology-fueled rebirth as it moves into 2024. How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

He and his students happily use open educational resources for textbooks. So, the digital textbooks are free—or students can pay to print them; Lyryx prints well. Open Textbook Library (umn.edu) - Find reviews of available OER, and also visit Open Education Network (umn.edu). More from Lyryx.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Textbook publishers typically deploy sales reps to campuses to convince professors to adopt their titles. But who makes the pitch for free or low-cost alternatives to textbooks known as OER, or open educational resources? Take the University of Texas at Arlington, which has a full-time Open Education Librarian, Michelle Reed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Discovery Education this month acquired DreamBox Learning , a PK-12 education technology provider serving more than 6 million students and 600,000 educators nationwide.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Ironically, the sector of our economy in which our federal government arguably does the least to facilitate information-sharing is education. As many reading this probably know, our nation’s education “system” is no system at all. Primarily because nobody involved has the time, incentive or mechanism to do so.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Americas schools are facing a crisis in reading achievement. The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th graders were reading at or above a proficient level. Evans observed, an engaged reader will learn more from reading.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

For years educators have been trying to glean lessons about learners and the learning process from the data traces that students leave with every click in a digital textbook , learning management system or other online learning tool. Its an approach known as learning analytics. Who has agency in that classroom?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With billion-dollar fundraises on top of billion-dollar valuations , it’s no mystery that the education technology industry is attracting top dollars from investors. The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education.

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APRIL 22, 2019

There are more than 711,000 books—and counting—in Bookshare , a digital reading platform for people with reading barriers including dyslexia, blindness or cerebral palsy. The architect issues a report after the evaluation; if any features are missing, the publisher fixes them and submits the files for another round of review.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

We spoke to Welcome about why he thinks students need to have more freedom to explore the technology available to them in their classroom, and how teachers can use technology to build relationships with their students. . EDTECH: As an education technology consultant and speaker, what is your main message?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

To evolve our education system and improve student outcomes for good, we need to reevaluate our policy-making decisions from the last 50-plus years—not just the last 18 months—while also looking forward to what students need to learn to be successful in the future. We need to examine how we value and invest in teachers and students.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

The rising cost of printed textbooks—as well as tuition and university life—have made them unaffordable for many students. As the financial viability of printed textbooks declines little by little, the demand for alternatives like online learning content continues to grow. Create Courseware Using Learning Objects Seth's Reading List.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. But the technology itself was not my concern. A third loaded up a digital textbook filled with circuits, transistors, and other assorted electronics diagrams. Ask any first year college student studying education, and their face will light up.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

through a signup ID supplied by their course instructors, like buying an electronic textbook. Enter Textbook Publishers. Textbook publishers could be the next level of major companies investing in the production of video games in higher education. Currently the ARTé: Macenas game sells to students for $19.95

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

When our students start their careers, technology won’t be relegated to the margins of their work; it will be front and center, every day. Thankfully, increasingly accessible technology is allowing teachers to look beyond textbooks, worksheets, and five paragraph essays. That’s like reading all of your news from one source.

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I was just starting myON , where we all predicted that a digital reading environment was key in the coming years. The big players at the time were the large textbook publishers. They were the most powerful companies in education.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many have struggled to transition their business from print to digital. Our core curriculum for reading and literature, and our core curriculum for math. And in reading, we were able to win 56 percent share of the Texas [English Language Arts] adoption.

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MAY 3, 2019

Source: Ponddy) Those products also provide the technical backbone for a third element of the program, which employs live, online native speakers working with the Smart Textbooks and Reader. Chen officially started using Ponddy Smart Textbooks in her classes last year, and recently introduced the Ponddy Reader.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

What has repeatedly snagged her ability to study it, however, has been when homework assignments include charts and graphs that her screen-reading software can’t process. “If The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook. Other facets are harder, and require a cultural shift of sorts.

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JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. As you select a witness, you learn more about history and have language arts stitched in with reading comprehension.

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