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OU launches cost-saving online textbook initiative.

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 5, Clicks: 0)
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Editorial -- Students and their parents know first-hand the nightmare of buying college textbooks. Textbook prices have been increasing about 8 percent a year and many are in triple digits. The old-school way of saving money on textbooks - buying them used - is difficult nowadays because of minor editing changes that render year-old texts out of date.

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OU finds online material to replace costly textbooks

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 8, Clicks: 2)
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Faced with evidence that 70 percent of University of Oklahoma students are not buying textbooks because of their high costs, school officials are trying to push more course materials online.

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Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.whitehouse.gov (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)
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The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for.

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Ed. Schools Lag Behind Digital Content Trends

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 26, Clicks: 4)
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Amanda M. Fairbanks -- Teacher education is struggling to catch up to digital-content developments.

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OpenStax College doubles down on free textbooks

nitajo sumitted ago via http://news.rice.edu (Views: 57, Clicks: 9)
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Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College today announced plans to more than double the number of titles in its catalog of free, online textbooks by 2015, thanks to a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF). More than 150 colleges, universities and high schools have adopted an OpenStax textbook since the nonprofit publisher’s 2012 launch.

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E-textbooks could save Oklahoma college students hundreds of dollars

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.oklahoman.com (Views: 33, Clicks: 7)
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If University of Oklahoma student Mandi Gatlin had enrolled in Introduction to Sociology last year, she could have expected to pay between $50 and $100 for the course's textbook. But because she enrolled in the class last semester, Gatlin got her book for free.

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News Corp.'s Amplify Unveils Education Tablet

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://www.pcmag.com (Views: 40, Clicks: 5)
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News. Corp-backed education company Amplify today unveiled a new, Android-based tablet intended to be a one-stop, personalized learning center.

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Schools Shift From Textbooks to Tablets

PiGuy sumitted ago via http://abcnews.go.com (Views: 61, Clicks: 6)
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Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks.

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Education chief Duncan wants textbooks to become obsolete

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.foxnews.com (Views: 119, Clicks: 5)
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan called recently for the nation to move as fast as possible away from printed textbooks and toward digital ones. "Over the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete," he declared.

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New Jersey : School Board Approves Policy for Bring Your Own Device Initiative

nitajo sumitted ago via http://lacey.patch.com (Views: 120, Clicks: 7)
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A New Jersey school board has voted to allow students to use their personal technology, such as iPads and smartphones, in school -- as long as they follow certain rules.

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Education chief wants textbooks to go digital

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.federalnewsradio.com (Views: 129, Clicks: 5)
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Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it.

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Glastonbury OKs Purchase Of iPads For Freshmen, Sophomores Next Year

nitajo sumitted ago via http://articles.courant.com (Views: 97, Clicks: 5)
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Calling it a proposal that will get "our kids college- and career-ready," the board of education unanimously approved a technology plan Monday that will give sophomores and freshmen at Glastonbury High School iPads at the start of the next school year.

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Media Companies, Seeing Profit Slip, Push Into Education

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 143, Clicks: 4)
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Under pressure to expand, media companies are capitalizing on the changes that technology is bringing to classrooms.

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Why Tablets in the Classroom Could Save Schools $3 Billion a Year

nitajo sumitted ago via http://allthingsd.com (Views: 141, Clicks: 5)
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A group of publishers and tech companies gathered in Washington recently to talk about getting digital textbooks into U.S. classrooms. The gathering, convened by the FCC and the Department of Education, included everyone from Apple to Intel to McGraw-Hill, and it was premised on the idea that digitizing classrooms is a good thing.

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Who really benefits from putting high-tech gadgets in classrooms?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 145, Clicks: 14)
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Michael Hiltzik -- Something sounded familiar last week when I heard U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski make a huge pitch for infusing digital technology into America's classrooms. Every schoolchild should have a laptop, they said. Because in the near future, textbooks will be a thing of the past.

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