As reported on the Chronicle of Higher Education Web site, the University of Massachusetts Amherst announced a grant process to lower the cost of textbooks for students. Eight faculty members were awarded a total of 10 grants, $1,000 per course, to adopt a new curricular resource strategy using easily identified digital resources. Under the program, faculty [...]
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I’m a gadget guy, I admit it. I also have to disclose that I’m generally not an Apple person (I hate iTunes), so I’ve been living a Google mobile experience for nearly two years (Android OS on my Motorola Droid2). I had pretty high hopes when a brand new Kindle Fire showed up in my [...]
The Saylor Foundation, still pushing to develop a complete college-level free online curriculum, has announced a second round of its open textbook challenge today. With this Challenge, we’re on the hunt for textbooks that correlate to the 200+ online college-level courses offered on Saylor.org. We’re offering $20,000 awards to each textbook author who submits an [...]
Saylor.org provides OER-based vetted college experience
Posted in OER, Repository, Textbook on Oct 26th, 2011
While keeping an eye on the Twitter stream (hashtag #opened11) coming out of the 2011 Open Education conference in Park City, Utah, this tweet caught my attention: The Saylor Foundation is a non-profit that focuses on making higher education free for everyone. The mission of the Saylor Foundation is to make education freely available to [...]
Recap of the 2011 Tech Fair
Posted in Event, OER, Repository, Textbook on Oct 25th, 2011
The second annual UD Tech Fair was held on October 19. This event showcased a vast array of IT products and services available to the UD community. The booth I was assigned to was called Open Education. My main goal was to raise awareness about open educational resources (OER), open textbooks, college affordability, and the [...]
The promise of cost-cutting electronic textbooks is far from becoming reality. Although they are usually cheaper than their paper counterparts, they also have serious restrictions attached to them, the most important one being an expiry date. Indiana University announced a couple of weeks ago that they successfully negotiated an agreement with leading e-text publishers to cut costs [...]
Reed College implemented a Kindle DX (larger than the regular Kindle) pilot back in 2008 to assess its potential as a textbook replacement. From the report that came out, it was a failure. The report was written in 2009. The last sentence still opens the door to the future of eReaders. In closing, we may [...]
Two new players just made some splash in the race to the market shares of online textbooks. Amazon.com just announced a textbook rental program that lets students decide the length of the rental and adjusts the price, and even offer a rent-to-buy option. All student annotations remain available, even after the rental is over. McGraw-Hill [...]
As I’m digging deeper into textbooks, I’m noticing that the more I dig, the murkier it gets. A lot of people are attempting to redefine what textbooks will become, but in order to aim for their future form, a look into what a traditional textbook is seems appropriate. David Warlick collected ideas from his personal [...]
I came across some very interesting articles recently about tablets, smartphones, e-readers, and e-books.In this post, I’ll try to expose the state of the market, and what it means for textbooks. The Rise of the E-Reader Interestingly, e-readers like the Kindle and the Nook have a higher market penetration than tablets, as reported by TechCruch. [...]
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