digital textbook Archives

Did you know? 15 new digital curriculum products, developments

January 25, 2023April 5, 2017 by Laura Ascione

Technology changes at a rapid pace, and educators have to keep up. Check below for the latest marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and…

District Management

Meet our 2014 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Award winners

December 4, 2025January 29, 2014 by From eSchool News staff

One is a former Gates Foundation executive whose district uses computer programming to teach essential math skills. Another has advised the Federal Communications Commission on digital textbook use.…

Curriculum

Publishers answering the call for digital textbooks

January 16, 2013January 15, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

The call for U.S. schools to move toward digital textbooks within the next five years has some education officials pondering their options. Publishers, meanwhile, are starting to answer…

District Management

Apple unveils interactive textbooks, revamped iTunes U

November 5, 2013January 19, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Apple might make the heavy backpack an endangered species.

District Management

Apple to enter the digital textbook fray?

January 12, 2012 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Education-technology advocates took notice when the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs called the textbook industry “ripe for destruction” in his official biography. On Jan. 19, school technologists might…

IT Management

Not everyone ready for the digital textbook revolution

November 5, 2013June 9, 2010 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

Don’t let the iPhones and BlackBerries fool you: Research and a recent pilot program that put eReaders in college students’ hands suggest that most students aren’t ready to…