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Digital versus physical textbooks

Hapara

With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. You can find these digital textbooks on open educational resource (OER) sites. Let’s take a look at their arguments and ways that school districts can use digital textbooks to meet learners’ needs. Affordable for school districts.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo on EdTech

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Viable adoption options to meet the needs of institutions. Textbook Bundles – Printed textbooks are converted to eBooks with supplemental materials and assessments, making the course complete. Customized Courseware – Custom digital courseware is mostly developed by colleges and universities to meet their unique needs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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