Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval
(AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming...
View ArticleE-textbooks may usher lower costs, improved learning for college students
(PhysOrg.com) -- An e-textbook pilot program will be tested in the coming months as Ball State University examines methods to reduce the cost of attending college and increase learning efficiency.
View ArticleApple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)
Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.
View ArticleAnalyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days
Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days...
View ArticleTextbook rentals a growing trend in higher education
ntil recently, when it came to buying textbooks, there really were only two primary options for the nation’s college students: new or used, and used only sometimes. However, over the past few years,...
View ArticlePsychologist studies the effects of diagram orientation on comprehension
(Phys.org)—The orientation of a diagram on the page of a textbook may seem inconsequential, but it can have a significant impact on a reader's ability to comprehend the information as presented,...
View ArticleThe dissector and the draughtsman
Between 1831 and 1854, the French anatomist Jean-Marc Bourgery and his compatriot Nicolas-Henri Jacob, a versatile artist, produced a richly illustrated and ground-breaking medical textbook. The...
View ArticleChemWiki takes on costly textbooks
The hefty college textbook, weighty in both pounds and dollars, has long been a staple of student life. But UC Davis chemistry professor Delmar Larsen is on a mission to replace textbooks with an...
View ArticleResearchers explore future of 'postdigital' textbook
An interdisciplinary team at Arizona State University has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program to conduct research on the...
View ArticleSKorean students ditch paper for digital books
Outside the classroom a hot summer day beckons, but fourth-grade teacher Yeon Eun-jung's students are glued to their tablet PCs as they watch an animated boy and a girl squabble about whether water...
View ArticleMany US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks
(AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic...
View ArticleApple to hold media event on education next week
(AP) -- Apple is scheduling a media event in New York next week, but the company isn't saying much about the topic it plans to discuss.
View ArticlePanasonic to release 65-inch Interactive Plasma Display
Panasonic Corporation announced today it will start shipment of its 65-inch "Interactive Plasma Display" (TH-65PB1), incorporated with electronic pen functions, in Japan, the U.S., and Europe at the...
View ArticleSome universities require students to use e-textbooks
Students don't seem to want to buy e-textbooks. So some schools are simply forcing them.
View ArticleweLearn application supports learning
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a free e-learning application called weLearn for Android tablets. The easy-to-use cloud service is designed to support and enliven learning by...
View ArticleFree search engine connects classrooms with science and technology
An educational search engine funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has gone mobile just in time for the holidays with the Dec. 16 release of an iPad app.
View ArticleSchools should ditch books: New York mayor hopeful
New York students would ditch textbooks and be issued tablets under a proposal by a leading candidate for mayor.
View ArticleSchools shift from textbooks to tablets
(AP)—Schools no longer have to wait for textbook companies to print new editions to get the latest events. In some cases, it's as simple as a teacher hitting "refresh."
View ArticleHigh school math course titles don't matter much
(AP)—When it comes to high school math, the course titles don't really matter or even predict what's in the textbook.
View ArticleResearch shows students perform well regardless of reading print or digital...
(Phys.org) —Research by an Indiana State University doctoral student found that students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one.
View ArticleLA to give every student an iPad; $30M order
Los Angeles' school system, the second largest in the United States, is ordering iPads for all its students, handing Apple a major success in its quest to make the tablet computer a replacement for...
View ArticleSome Kenyan parents oppose laptop offer to kids (Update)
An ambitious plan by Kenya's government to give laptops to schoolchildren has been opposed by parents who say the money for the computers should instead go toward raising teachers' salaries and feeding...
View ArticleTablet computers replace traditional textbooks in a Finnish school
This autumn, the schoolbags of pupils attending the Savonlinna Teacher Training School of the University of Eastern Finland are much lighter than before, thanks to tablet computers. Approximately half...
View ArticleWar is text: Researchers find depictions of war in school textbooks shifted...
(Phys.org) —Modern day textbooks draw a different picture of war than their predecessors did in the era immediately after World War II leading up to the Vietnam War, a study by University at Albany...
View ArticleOpenStax developing textbooks that deliver personalized lessons
Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which has already provided free textbooks to hundreds of thousands of college students, today announced a $9 million effort to develop free, digital textbooks...
View ArticleHistory books becoming next fight in Texas schools
The next ideological fight over new textbooks for Texas classrooms intensified Wednesday with critics lambasting history lessons that they say exaggerate the influence of Moses in American democracy...
View ArticleFlies give another twist in the evolving story of heredity
Thanks to the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, and his experiments cross-breading peas, the textbooks tell us that we know how inheritance works: we get 50% of our genes from our mums and 50%...
View ArticleTexas OKs most new history textbooks amid outcry
A Texas panel has approved 89 history and social studies textbooks for use in classrooms across America's second-largest state, after one top publisher withdrew a book.
View ArticleDigital textbook analytics can predict student outcomes, study finds
College professors and instructors can learn a lot from the chapters of a digital textbook that they assign students to read. Reynol Junco, an associate professor in Iowa State University's School of...
View ArticleCalifornia 6th grade science books: Climate change a matter of opinion not...
If American teens are unsure about climate change or its cause, some school textbooks aren't helping, says teaching expert Diego Román, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, co-author of a new study...
View Article
