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E-textbooks: Do students read more, or engage more?1 comment

Michael Ritter wrote 2 months ago: The title of this blog post came to mind as I was reading the article “A Campus-Wide E-Textboo … more →

Tags: Digital Textbooks, eLearning, e-textbook

Mobile Learning Round-Up, Week 371 comment

Mark van 't Hooft wrote 3 months ago: This week’s highlights from the world of mobile learning. Mobile Learning Stuff: More and more … more →

Tags: mobile learning, Learning while mobile, Mobile web, Handheld Learning, Zune, Augmented Reality, mobile app store event, mobile innovation week, MobileHCI 2009

Interview: Steve Cooper of TechUofA

jimskcc wrote 3 months ago: By Jim Shimabukuro Editor Steve Cooper is founder of Tech University of America (TechUofA) and a for … more →

Tags: College, K-12, social networking, YouTube, Blackboard, facebook, Steve Cooper, TechUofA, Tech University of America

eTextbooks have come to the iPod Touch and the iPhone

frenchmajor wrote 4 months ago: That’s right! CourseSmart, leading supplier of eTextbooks has made an iPhone app to go along w … more →

Tags: Iphone/Ipod Touch, Reviews, CourseSmart, Education, iPhone, ipod touch, textbooks

CourseSmart, Kindle DX and e-textbooks2 comments

Jo B wrote 4 months ago: Amazon’s (AMZN) unveiling of the Kindle DX, designed in part for digital textbooks, is probabl … more →

Tags: Education Technology, CourseSmart, kindle, amazon kindle dx, www amazon com, electronic text books, eBooks, Classrooms

Buying Digital Textbooks

digitaltextbook wrote 5 months ago: High school students take having free books for granted. Most incoming college freshmen are in for a … more →

Tags: Buy Cheap College Textbooks, buy cheap textbooks online, buy textbooks online, buy webbook, Cheap college textbook, cheap college textbooks, cheap text books, digital college textbooks, digital text book

RFB&D Free Audio Access Membership until January 20, 2010

digitaltext wrote 6 months ago: RFB&D logo If you already are a member of Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, you probably are a … more →

Tags: electronic texts, Accessibility, audio books, Landmark_College, Digital Textbooks, Daisy, rfbd, Print_disability

6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks

faith johnson wrote 6 months ago: Northwest Missouri State University nearly became the first public university to deliver all of its … more →

Tags: eBooks, Northwest Missouri State University, Jeffrey R. Young

GOVERNOR LAUNCHES "VIRGINIA ON ITUNES U", ISSUES MATH-APPLICATIONS CHALLENGE

digitaltext wrote 9 months ago: This morning, I saw this news release and was excited by Virginia’s Department of Education vi … more →

Tags: Assistive Technology, Faculty Resources, electronic texts, Accessibility, open a

CourseSmart and Section 508 Compliance

digitaltext wrote 9 months ago: I was pleased to see that CourseSmart has acknowledged the issue of  the inaccessibility of their e- … more →

Tags: creating digital textbooks, Faculty Resources, electronic texts, Publisher digital request for, Accessibility, open access, open, CourseSmart, publishers digital requests

SPARC announces Open Access Week 2009

digitaltext wrote 10 months ago: I was excited when I read  this post this morning and wanted to share it. http://www.arl.org/sparc/m … more →

Tags: text to speech, screen readers, creating digital textbooks, Faculty Resources, electronic texts, Accessibility, Kurzweil, text_readers, Digital Textbooks

Comments, questions on NPR's "Paper Cut: Missouri College Embraces E-Textbooks1 comment

digitaltext wrote 10 months ago: Yesterday, several people asked me if I had heard a news story on NPR reported from station KCUR in … more →

Tags: Accessibility, electronic texts, screen readers

Bookshare and Don Johnston

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: CBrown wrote:                                     Bookshare.org and Read:OutLoud by Don Johnson Last … more →

Tags: text to speech, screen readers, Assistive Technology, electronic texts, text_readers, Bookshare.org, Read:Outloud, screen_readers, eBooks

List of Publisher Digital Requests Links1 comment

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: I had sent out an email plea for help in requesting digital copies from publishers in a timely fashi … more →

Tags: text to speech, Assistive Technology, Kurzweil, electronic texts, Publisher digital request for, Landmark_College, Digital Textbooks

Two More Sources for Obtaining Digital College Textbooks: textbook.com and WW Norton.com

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: Actually finding a digital textbook is finally becoming an obtainable goal that doesn’t take longer … more →

Tags: screen readers, Assistive Technology, electronic texts, Landmark_College

Publishing Companies Making Digital TextBooks Available

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: 4. If you want a digital copy of your book, and you don’t need it to be in Kurzweil format, you can … more →

Tags: electronic texts, assistive_Technology, Landmark_College

Another Faculty Resource for Custom Etextbooks

digitaltext wrote 1 year ago: I didn’t know about this service from McGraw Hill when I posted a piece about faculty creating … more →

Tags: Faculty Resources, electronic texts


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