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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training.

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