The top 10 ed-tech stories of 2010: No. 1
With a large touch screen that can display electronic texts in color, Apple’s iPad was greeted with huge enthusiasm by many ed-tech advocates when it debuted earlier this…
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Kno announces single-screen tablet textbook
Kno has announced that it plans to make a single-screen version of its tablet textbook, ReadWriteWeb reports. The company received a $46 million round of funding in August…
$46M in funding for digital textbook reader aimed at students
Kno Inc., a company developing a digital textbook reader for students, on Sept. 8 said it has received $46 million in the latest round of funding from venture…
E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad?
Four years ago Cambridge, Mass.-based E Ink Corporation and Taiwan's Prime View International Co. hooked up to create an e-paper display that now supplies 90 percent of the…
eTextbooks: Never mind iPad and eReaders, PCs still dominant
There are many benefits to students accessing their textbooks electronically, such as shared highlights and search capabilities. Surprisingly, though, it's not the iPad and other eReaders that are…
Amazon: Kindle titles outpacing hardcovers
The Amazon.com Kindle eReader and bookstore have reached a "tipping point," the company said July 19, with Kindle titles outselling hardcover books on the massive online marketplace for…
Feds: Make eReaders accessible to all students
The federal government will help schools and colleges using eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle to comply with laws giving students with disabilities equal access to emerging education…
Educators, students can benefit from technology training
Technology is changing the face of education. Typing on a keyboard can make learning proper handwriting unimportant. Using a calculator can make simple math functions technology-assisted processes. And…
New smart phones pave the way for mobile video chats
Apple's iPhone 4, unveiled June 7 and set for release June 24, features a mobile video conferencing application that could increase collaboration among students and make cross-district and…
Florida high school trading textbooks for eReader devices
Clearwater High School next year will replace traditional textbooks with eReader devices, reports the St. Petersburg Times.
eBook restrictions vex users
As more and more eReading devices flood the market, users are beginning to feel the restrictions imposed by copyright and digital rights management (DRM)—restrictions that some fear could…
Online textbooks let students share notes across the globe
Florida State College at Jacksonville faculty have created 20 electronic textbooks that are accessible on a free online platform that lets students take notes in the margins, search…
Developers seek to link iPad with education
Technology experts say Apple's latest gizmo, the iPad, won't replace students' laptops, but a menu of applications could help teach the periodic table, a range of languages, and…
Homework at North Texas schools is going high-tech
A vanguard of schools around the country is sending students home with the same advanced technology they work with in the classroom, reports the Dallas Morning News.
University library sees demand for Kindles soar
For students looking to temper sober textbook readings with a literary escape into the world of vampires and zombies, Oregon State University is loaning out Amazon Kindle electronic…
Princeton students, profs give Kindle mixed grades
Princeton University has released findings from its semester-long pilot of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX electronic reader, and the results appear mixed: While students reduced the amount of paper they…
Publishers win a bout in eBook Price Fight
With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control--at least temporarily--of…
Nooks Will Be Available at Barnes & Noble Stores Beginning Wednesday
Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest book-selling chain, said that its Nook electronic reading device would be available for purchase in its stores starting Wednesday, reports The New…
Asustek plans Eee Book eReader and tablet PC to rival iPad
Netbook pioneer Asustek Computer plans to launch its own eReader device and a tablet PC to rival Apple's iPad in the second half of this year, PC World…
Apple’s approach to eBooks could be problematic
Even as Apple's iPad is poised energize electronic reading, the new device is undermining a painstakingly constructed effort by the publishing industry to make it possible to move…
Future of eReading might not be iPad, but Blio
Despite all the buzz about Apple’s iPad tablet and how it could be useful for reading electronic textbooks, a new software program on the way might hold even…
Educators intrigued by Apple’s iPad
Apple’s new tablet computer, the iPad, could push other companies to bring more color-capable eReaders to the market in a move that could make digital books more commonplace…
Top 10 ed-tech stories of 2009: No. 1
Schools' use of digital textbooks began long before 2009, but it was a watershed year for this emerging trend in education.