Sentences with phrase «in electronic textbook»

Kno has been a leader in the electronic textbook market for a number of years and currently has 100,000 of them up for grabs.

Not exact matches

The company zeroed in on high - priced, high - margin financial data, electronic databases, resources for the legal and medical industries and textbooks.

Entire textbooks are devoted to each style, although many titles such as «Day Trade Online» or «How to Get Started in Electronic Day Trading» are unclear about what type of trading they espouse.

Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, says the Cambridge Analytica incident is a textbook violation of the settlement Facebook reached with the FTC in 2011 which required that Facebook users give permission before their data was shared beyond the privacy limits they set on Facebook.

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.

The Texas Board of Education's decision to allow school districts to buy a videodisk - based science curriculum with state textbook funds will encourage traditional publishers to step up their efforts in the electronic media, experts said last week, but it is unlikely to signal the end of printed textbooks in the schools.

Electronic publishers, textbook producers, and curriculum specialists agreed that the Texas board radically altered the school publishing market this month when it became the first state panel to adopt a videodisk for use in its elementary - school science programs.

With intuitive algorithms guided by well - researched learning processes, rather than electronic mock - ups of out - of - date textbook approaches; much of what «is imagined» is happening in classrooms today.

In the new age of electronic publishing, the textbook has become a dinosaur.

The fundamental issues remain similar (e.g., teachers or textbooks as drivers of the curriculum, student challenges when using text in courses, cost of books); however, the advent of new technologies, like electronic text (e-text) and reading devices (e-readers) have added more complexity to the discussion.

Existing research on in - service teachers indicates that greater support around the use of electronic text resources supporting textbooks is necessary (Eddy, Ruitman & Marsh, 2011), demonstrating a need for teacher preparation programs to develop skills around these technologies.

Arizona's Empire High School in Tucson was one of the first U.S. public schools to switch to electronic textbooks in 2004 (Murray, 2004), and a 2006 Project Tomorrow NetDay survey found that 22 % of middle and high school students were already using electronic versions of textbooks (Evans, 2007).

In addition to added functionality (i.e., highlighting and dictionary functions), electronic textbooks allow the teacher to choose, edit, and modify text, becoming a more active consumer of curricular materials.

Vallas ordered Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Math in Focus Program, a package that included textbooks, printed and electronic instructional content and training for teachers.

Some opponents of using electronic readers in the classroom claim that a lack of textbooks in digital format is a significant challenge that has not been overcome yet.

Features like this are critical if electronic books are ever going to fully replace paper textbooks in classrooms.

Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large - screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.

While I think the idea of electronic textbooks is a much - needed innovation, it's frustrating that everything in the eBook world is progressing through proprietary and non-open source methods.

As digital textbooks gain popularity around the country, there are still parts of the U.S. and other industrialized nations that do not currently benefit from the obvious advantages of e-reading in academic arenas, which is odd considering that even the textbook publishers are in support of electronic educational content as a cost saving measure.

I was an executive at a firm that digitized the most popular college textbooks in the USA for electronic distribution.

The digital revolution is well underway, but one of the original promises this new wave of electronic reading was supposed to bring hasn't happened in a major way: digital textbooks.

In a strange turn of events, it is astounding to note that the cost for purchasing and issuing e-readers across the grade levels for individual school systems to use electronic versions of textbooks is not anticipated to be any higher than the current costs for accumulating and storing print editions.

Everything from casual reading to textbooks to specific titles to assist readers with special needs has evolved in an electronic edition.

Simba Information, a research company specializing in publishing, estimates that electronic textbooks will generate $ 267.3 million this year in sales in the United States.

We do not oppose electronic textbooks; in fact, they hold great promise for blind students if they are accessible.

In Thailand, Ramkhamhaeng University started rolling out their electronic textbook service on their website in 2001 and a distance learning program called mLearninIn Thailand, Ramkhamhaeng University started rolling out their electronic textbook service on their website in 2001 and a distance learning program called mLearninin 2001 and a distance learning program called mLearning.

With more e-readers hitting the U.S. market, analysts predict a big uptick in device sales in late 2010 with a strong surge in the popularity of electronic textbooks used in high schools and colleges in time for school in the fall of 2011.

The online textbooks are enhanced with images and links and interactive features, and are designed to display on electronic blackboards and laptops in the classroom.

It will be running on a customized version of Windows CE with a user interface that has been designed specifically for use in schools as an electronic textbook.

Chegg also offers the bonus of giving you free access to the electronic version of your textbook while the physical copies ship to you to avoid disruptions in your class schedule.

Chicago - Kent College of Law, for example, has been experimenting with digital casebooks since the 1990s.160 Other professors argue that reading in digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aidin digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aidIn general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aids.

Relying solely on electronic databases: More often than not it is best to first browse a textbook in the relevant area of law before going online; you will be able to benefit from someone else's work, develop ideas for argument, and refine your queries when you do go online; this should lead tobecoming more time efficient [it gets you out of your office, too!]

There is, I would argue, a general consensus among both information providers and information users that the electronic storage and online retrieval of large amounts of legal information, is inherently more efficient and, as Ted Tjaden points out in his posting this week, an increasing number of previously print - only monographs, treatises, and textbooks now coexist in both print and electronic formats.

In the case of older textbooks or very specialized materials, there may be no financial incentive for publishers to offer materials in both electronic and print formaIn the case of older textbooks or very specialized materials, there may be no financial incentive for publishers to offer materials in both electronic and print formain both electronic and print format.

As Pearson — along with the entire textbook publishing industry — rethinks its role in education, one of the company's executives says it could look to build the core competencies of digital content creators like video game giant Electronic Arts.

Since technology plays an important role in the learning environment, each student would be provided with an interactive desk and holographic pen, and handheld electronic textbooks will replace traditional paper schoolbooks.