Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. That’s the way Cengage created its subscription product, says Hansen.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books. Even the most digitally connected educator will have access to a printer, Fields said.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Provide Access to K-12 Libraries.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. “Ed access to VR growing as low-cost options expand,” says Education Dive. The Omidyar Network has invested $850,000 in the “future of tech” research organization Data & Society. Very thorough research, gj. million total. Completion Rates.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” ” A master of science in data journalism from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.”

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