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What are Tools and Techniques in Education?
Tools and techniques in education encompass a broad spectrum of resources and methodologies utilized to enhance teaching and learning experiences.
How immersive learning will revolutionize education
Immersive learning experiences are a new type of educational experience that can be used in place of traditional lectures and classrooms. Immersive learning is meant to mimic the…
Is it time to say goodbye to textbooks?
People have been predicting the end of the traditional, paper-based textbook for years.
It’s time to change our learning model
As a 22-year-old first-year teacher, I was introduced to one of the biggest challenges within our schools. While setting up my classroom, my principal came by to deliver…
Amazon wins $30M contract to sell e-books to NYC schools
Amazon.com Inc. has won a $30 million contract to sell digital textbooks to New York City's public schools. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Panel for Educational…
Most Popular of 2015, No. nine: 106k free teacher-created digital textbooks hit the web
The move to digital textbooks and resources is spreading as more companies partner with open education efforts Ed. note: We’re ... Read more
Are digital textbooks worth it?
It has been nearly three years since the FCC and Education Secretary Arne Duncan rolled out the Digital Textbook Playbook and challenged schools to go digital within five…
Digital textbooks are the future for learning
Once upon a time, every high school student carried a heavy backpack filled with thick textbooks — the precious source of all knowledge they would need to study,…
Why tablets are so much better than textbooks
Amplify is an education company using technology towards a simple goal — change the way students interact and learn in the classroom, Business Insider reports.
Why hasn’t the tech industry disrupted the textbook industry yet?
My view is that the innovation required for textbooks is far beyond what most companies are doing, Forbes reports.
Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
Reining in exorbitant textbook costs is no longer a campus-by-campus venture: A unified approach, powered by EDUCAUSE and the Internet2 consortium’s NET+ cloud-based collaborative purchasing program, could make…
Replacing a pile of textbooks with an iPad
A new company called Inkling hopes to break the standard textbook model and help textbooks enter the interactive age by letting students share and comment on the texts…
Do kids learn as well on iPads, eBooks?
Compared with traditional textbooks, the iPad and other devices for reading digital books have the potential to save on textbook costs in the long term, provide students with…
Stanford to issue new medical students iPads
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that incoming medical students at Stanford University will have fewer textbooks to carry this fall after the university distributes iPads to its 91…
Kindles, iPads could be textbooks in new Georgia state bill
Could Kindles, iPads, and other reading devices soon be as common in Georgia schools as textbooks? Maybe, if a bill passed by the state Senate is approved in…