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"Crowdsourcing" a Textbook: 120 Student Authors Writing on a Wiki (Research-Based): February 15, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
Many instructors have experimented with student-authored wiki textbooks. Advantages include reading and evaluating primary literature and facilitating constructivist learning. We manage the peer-re…
7 Things You Should Know About iPad Apps for Learning: February 9, 2011

Applications designed for the iPad offer interactive content that takes advantage of touch-screen navigation. The iPad combines robust computational functionality with a screen large enough to …
Who Needs Textbooks?: January 25, 2011

How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age. How Washington State is redesigning textbooks for the digital age. …
E-Text and Accessibility: What We Need to Know: March 15, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2011
Thinking about e-text on campus? If so, attend this important workshop to get a handle on what you need to consider to ensure new technologies are accessible to all. We will largely focus on lesson…
A Cover to Cover Solution: How Open Textbooks are the Path to Textbook Affordability: September 30, 2010

This report evaluates cost-reducing options from the traditional textbook market - rentals, e-books and e-readers - and open textbooks as potential next steps to reduce the high cost of te…
All In the Delivery: August 31, 2010

As publishers and analysts again wonder if e-books are about to take off, the growing popularity of rental options may play as important a role as technology. …
New ELI 7 Things... Explores the Evolution of the Textbook: April 16, 2012

Tablet devices and the publishing they enable are leading us to reconsider what constitutes a textbook, and they certainly change the landscape of what it has traditionally meant to wr…
A sustainable future for open textbooks? The Flat World Knowledge story: August 3, 2010

Authors John L. Hilton III and David A. Wiley discuss the concern many college students and their families have a=about the high costs of textbooks. E–books have been proposed as one potential …
Dealing with the Changing World of E-Textbooks: October 13, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
This session will examine the current trends in textbook technology with respect to delivery platform options (iPad, Kindle, etc.), software format (electronic publication versus PDF), and pedago…
FCC/U.S. Dept. of Ed. Highlight Drive for K-12 E-Textbooks: April 3, 2012

In his latest "DC News" post, my EDUCAUSE Policy colleague, Greg Haledjian, provided information about a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and U.S. Department of Educati…

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