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The publishing company is trying to reinvent itself for the Digital Age in the most fraught field there is: your children’s education.
Basic financials on big pigs in scholcomm, textbooks, trade publishing.
Los Angeles school police are tracking students, and $700 tablets, as part of a district pilot program to increase security.
$1.3-billion project crashes and burns as new superintendent shelves it.
Possible book-review candidate.
Excellent history and explanation of Wiley v. Kirtsaeng.
Adoption of open educational resources has to be about more than replacing textbooks, advocates say -- and academic libraries can help.
Former superintendent John Deasy canceled the iPad contract after KPCC reported he met with vendors before bids. Ramon Cortines wants to use it buy more devices.
As I was perusing David Kernohan’s notes on Larry Lessig’s keynote at the OpenEd conference, one statement leapt out at me: Could the department of labour require that new education content commissioned ($100m) be CC-BY? There was a clause (124) that suggested that the government should check that no commercial content should exist in these […]
The arrival of new technologies in schools and classrooms around the nation has been met with a mixture of enthusiasm and anxiety. Education technologies (ed te
Discussions about the future of school curricula tend to be cannibalized by the sensationalized debate over the Common Core, but for those able to ...
Funding for Orange Grove Text Plus, an open-acess textbook initiative, can make textbooks even more affordable than e-textbooks. If enacted, it could cost students almost nothing.
Has a list of OER sources, including for K12.
This summer, Chad Mason signed up for online general psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This spring, Jonathan Serrano took...
The price of college textbooks has risen almost as quickly as the price of college tuition.