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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. “But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I ConnectEDU.

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