Sentences with phrase «electronic textbooks»

Students can complement an online education with electronic textbooks for a completely digital learning experience that is accessible anywhere, anytime.

If your eLearning course is just a fancy electronic textbook with a «next» button, then be prepared to lose your learners.

More to the point, it's a step toward electronic textbooks, and away from the bizarre economy of print textbooks.

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

High school and college students could be big beneficiaries of mobile technology by using e-readers and smartphones to access electronic textbooks and other course materials.

Clark County's approach includes offering six models of blended learning, using a modular approach to program development and implementation, and leveraging technologies such as electronic textbooks and curriculum resources to alter instructional processes and improve efficiency and effectiveness.

«We are going to pilot the use of electronic textbooks at the junior and senior high level and if this pilot is successful then we will expand it across the board... We shall expand the progressive free SHS before the end of my term and also extend it to cover boarding students,» he added.

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Still, parent reactions to children's e-books, expressed through news media and blogs, seem to mirror the range of opinions regarding electronic textbooks: some parents love them while others adamantly keep their children away.

Look under «Popular Features» on the Kindle store page to learn about buying or renting electronic textbooks on Kindle.

Via electronic textbook publisher CourseSmart, the digital version costs just over $ 70, a savings of about 12.5 % over the printed version.

In pursuance of this objective, the NDC intend to pilot the use of ICT electronic textbooks also known as «e-book» using tablets in educational institutions between 2017 and 2020.

Robots could also become full conversation partners, not just electronic textbooks, for language students worldwide.

Outside of the classroom, increased connectivity on college campuses provides opportunities for students and teachers to collaborate, empowers student research via university library — enabled online search engines, and allows students to use enhanced electronic textbooks, which include embedded videos and hyperlinks to pertinent articles on the Internet.

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.

Although computers are pervasive in schools, they tend to be used more like electronic textbooks — high - tech tools in a nineteenth - century system (2010).»

as i understood it, they are working with the chinese government to make some kinda electronic textbooks?

It's called the Kindle Textbook Creator, and it lets authors prepare electronic textbooks for students, for publication across Fire tablets, Android devices, iPhones and iPads, Mac and PCs.

If it can find a way to leverage those relationships to make it easy to distribute electronic textbooks to students, it could get a leg up on Amazon's current model.

Apple's education announcement featured a new version of the iBooks app to handle the company's new electronic textbook format, along with free software for creating those interactive textbooks.

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.

Many celebrate the availability of electronic textbooks for the classroom, surmising that their interactivity will make textbook content more engaging for students, their reduced cost compared to print textbooks will ease the financial burden on school budgets, and their format will literally lighten a student's load and take less of a toll on the environment.

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.

Still, parent reactions to children's e-books, expressed through news media and blogs, seem to mirror the range of opinions regarding electronic textbooks: some parents love them while others adamantly keep their children away.

Further, in addition to the problems that exist with the digital books themselves, electronic textbook publishers also need to overcome deeply ingrained student behavior.

Almost all of the Web can be used as an electronic textbook, including many sites that were never designed with an educational purpose in mind.

The debate over what Apple's electronic textbooks will mean for our formal education system comes at a time when we have not yet determined what tablet technology and the availability of electronic books (or «e-books») can mean for children's learning at home and other informal learning environments.

One hundred percent of the physics teachers reported using simulations and electronic textbooks (100 %); spreadsheets, presentation software, and Internet research were each individually reported by 86 % of the physics teachers.

For example, it doesn't really matter what you're studying — math, astronomy, nursing, or physics — there's an electronic textbook for that.

In practice, though, the cost savings for electronic textbooks are miniscule.

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Many companies are starting to market electronic textbooks to Canadian schools and Overdrive allows customers to easily borrow free books from the library.

So if you are reading an electronic textbook, you can easily view all of your bookmarks in a singular place for studies.

Plastic Logic CEO Indro Mukerjee officially debuted the electronic textbook at an event held at the Moscow Planetarium during a visit by British Trade Minister Lord Green.

«For schools, eBooks come with different rights for different students, the books need to be accessible on school computers and on personal devices, and some electronic textbooks can be over two gigabytes each!

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The advancement of tablets and e-readers should remove some of the perceived differences between paper and electronic textbooks, especially the «easier to make notes» factor

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.

Now enters the Plastic Logic 100, an electronic textbook reader, with its anti-glare, anti-fingerprint, shatterproof, screen, a capacitive touchscreen in fact, with a resolution of 1280 x 960.

E-book site CafeScribe launched a line of stickers for computers and tablets designed to attach that signature «old book smell» to electronic textbooks.