Sentences with phrase «electronic textbooks for»

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

New Mexico schools will be able to use state textbook funds to buy electronic materials for social - studies classes and reference needs, under an unusual textbook - adoption process approved by the state board of education.

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.

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.

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.

Part of this process was to inform them about free electronic text sources available, specifically the Orange Grove Digital Repository and CK - 12 websites (see Figure 1), which provide open textbooks for math and science at a variety of grade levels and courses.

Money is also basic need of education because without money (How to make money online) students and teachers are unable to purchase books, notebooks and other such relevant things which is necessary for education but now due to the latest technology there is no need to purchase expensive books and paper because virtual field trips, electronic forms or mail, printed memo's, virtual labs, electronic textbooks, and the thousands of free online resources can all save money and give students or learners excellent educational experiences.

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

Online retail giant Amazon.com unveiled a large - screen version of its popular Kindle electronic reader on Wednesday designed for newspapers, magazines and textbooks.

However, for that to happen, textbook publishers, ebook reader manufacturers, and schools must first address some of the major hurdles that are making students wary of electronic books.

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high - school books.

Non-trade e-books include electronic versions of children's picture books and academic textbooks, reference materials, and other specialized texts that typically are published by separate imprints from trade books, often are sold through separate channels, and are not reasonably substitutable for trade e-books.

Also textbooks, science journals, etc will finally be useable for long form reading on an electronic device.

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

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.

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.

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

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

But as long as the interface of the Kindle DX is inaccessible to the blind — denying blind students access to electronic textbooks or the advanced features available to read and annotate them — it is our position that no university should consider this device to be a viable e-book solution for its students.»

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.

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.

Downloadable electronic versions of textbooks for Marvell's Moby tablet could sell for a fraction of the bound versions.

Many are pointing to e-books as the greener choice, a handful of universities are already embracing pilot programs for electronic textbooks, and we've even seen politicians brandishing the Kindle as a symbol of sustainable education.

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 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!]

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 format.

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.