eSchool News
APRIL 23, 2020
Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.
eSchool News
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Early digital textbook adopters share their pros and cons. It has been nearly three years since the FCC and Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out the Digital Textbook Playbook and challenged schools to go digital within five years. Interactive quizzes, comments, and discussions live within the text itself.
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Edsurge
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.
Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. Today, Top Hat announced it has reached an agreement to acquire more than 400 higher education textbooks from Nelson, one of the biggest educational publishers in Canada. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.
Catlin Tucker
APRIL 22, 2024
Observational Assessments The teacher’s observations of student behaviors, interactions, and work provide valuable qualitative data (or information that is descriptive and non-numeric) that complements quantitative assessments, like quizzes that produce numerical data.
Edsurge
APRIL 17, 2020
As colleges seek to provide alternatives to print textbooks, one digital book provider, BibliU, has launched about 100 pilots globally since the pandemic started, says CEO David Sherwood. BibliU isn’t the only company to attract investor interest for challenging the status quo of printed textbooks.
eSchool News
JANUARY 25, 2024
Listening , San Francisco, CA Listening provides a mobile app designed for students and researchers to transform textbooks and research papers into audio, providing insights and note-taking ability on-the-go and helping to streamline the research process. Oblio, Inc. Quizard AI, Inc.
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