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College Students Are Spending Less On Course Materials—And More On Tech

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Many colleges have adopted inclusive access models—while publishers like Pearson , McGraw Hill and Cengage have made them part of their switch to digital—to ensure students can access books at a discounted price. Technology Spending Course materials are just one part of student expenses, though.

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Targeting ‘Inclusive Access’ Deals, College Bookstores Sue Textbook Publishers and Retailers

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But in their complaint , plaintiffs Campus Book Company, BJJ Corporation, CBSKY, CBSNM and Renttext.com argue that these subscriptions harm independent bookstores by effectively eliminating secondary markets for course materials. McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, Pearson Education Inc., Cengage Learning Inc.,

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. They’re amazing.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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Print textbooks are the eternal punching bag for the things people think technology should render obsolete. spending on PreK-12 instructional technology steadily ticked upwards, from $2.6 In Pearson’s preliminary 2018 results released in February, the publisher said it expects flat revenue or even a 5 percent decline for its U.S.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

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A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. For proof, check out the “ Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning.” and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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