Sentences with phrase «higher education textbooks»

Just in time for back to school, Kno announced today that it is now compatible with Android powered devices, specifically that Kno's K - 12 and higher education textbooks work nicely on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 on which is comes preinstalled.

It's also worth noting that Apple faces different competition in the higher education textbook arena, including college bookstores.

Leading textbook publishers Cengage Learning, Pearson, and Wiley, together representing more than 60 percent of the U.S. higher education textbook market, will begin offering textbooks through the Kindle Store beginning this summer.

Not exact matches

In Palatine's Township High School District 211, the waivable expenses can total $ 745 per student: $ 160 for textbooks and supplies, $ 170 for school transportation, $ 350 for drivers education plus $ 65 if the teen parks on campus.

Not just for science teachers, the workshops attract anyone interested in science education, including curriculum specialists, science textbook publishers, and representatives from higher education.

They have written on passion and on managing career advice overload for Inside Higher Education, co-written a textbook chapter, taught multiple sector - specific courses, consulted on diversity issues at companies and organizations throughout the country, and held numerous counseling and program development positions in their over 20 years of professional experience.

With the government pushing for higher standards in education, schools are feeling the pressure to invest in new textbooks and learning materials and can easily forget the importance of the environment in which the children learn.

The details are intricate and the stakes are very high, both for the theorists, who want their view of education to prevail over the whole state, and for the publishers, who must satisfy the state's requirements in order to win entrance to the enormous textbook market.

The curriculum — which embeds all - purpose academic words the students will need to read high school and college textbooks in math, English, science, and history — has helped to «build a bridge toward greater understanding of what is being read by students,» says Ben Honoroff, the literacy coach for MSQI in the Department of Education.

Most math education analyses in urban high school classrooms focus on delivery of content: What content to deliver, when to deliver it, how to explain it, what textbooks to use, how much home work to assign, and more.

Pearson, despite its reputation as one of the «Big Three» of the education - textbook publishing world, had shown a high level of sophistication in its digital offerings, she says.

Despite his coursework in education, he recounted that once he entered the classroom, he reverted back to the way he remembers being taught French in high school - textbooks, teacher pace, and worksheets with verb conjugation boxes to fill in.

Although modern, well - designed facilities do not guarantee higher student achievement, some basic features that parents can look for include a well - equipped library, a collection of age - appropriate books and periodicals in addition to textbooks in each classroom, a separate lunchroom and auditorium or large classroom for meetings and presentations, and adequate physical education facilities.

The Department for Education says the mastery approach to maths teaching, as it is known, involves children being taught as a whole class and is supported by the use of high - quality textbooks.

Looking more closely at the passage above and comparing it to the content of the National Science Education Standards (NSES)(National Research Council, 1996) shows that a single paragraph from the most commonly used high school biology textbook in the United States includes at least six scientific terms (eukaryotic, chromosome, prokaryote, chromatin, histone, and nucleosome) that are, unlike DNA and protein, not included in the NSES.

Hachette Livre, which publishes textbooks and interactive exercises for K - 12 and higher education students in France, plans to use Knewton as part of a brand new, next - generation digital product suite.

DEA worked with the Belmont High School building principal to file a grievance to get textbooks for students in special education programs.

An evaluation of five U.S. higher - education textbook publishers, representing more than 85 % of college textbook sales, found an 82 % increase in textbook prices since 2002, as compared to a 28 % rise in the overall Consumer Price Index during the same period.

This article we comment over essentially informs us and directs us to other articles having to do with the reluctance of higher education and private school students to accept digital textbooks, even when priced lower.

With the sharply rising costs of all things associated with higher education and the pervasiveness of technology, more and more people seem to be copying copyright monopoly protected information such as textbooks.

«Textbooks in higher - education are moving beyond the static dimension of the printed page and the book - under - glass e-books people are accustomed to,» said Kent Freeman, Chief Operating Officer, VitalSource Technologies, Inc. «As publishers create rich interactive learning experiences for institutions and students, they should be taking advantage of EPUB and the flexibility and benefits that the open industry standard affords.

LearnSmart from McGraw - Hill Higher Education may have found a way to help students around those issues that plague digital textbooks by bypassing the traditional concept of a text altogether.

Jones also spoke to GoodeReader about the possible reasons why digital textbooks have seen a greater adoption at the higher education level than in the public schools, namely that in those arenas that students are accustomed to paying for content, as well as the fact that they see the means to an end in this kind of investment towards their degrees and ultimately their careers.

Of course, Hill highlighted the fact that other models that consumers and publishers are familiar with are also technically subscriptions, such as textbook rentals in higher education.

They currently have around 24,000 digital textbooks from all the major U.S. textbook houses, offering access to about 90 % of all textbooks used in U.S. higher education.

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Educationeducation, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary EducationEducation (FIPSE).

Digital textbook companies like CourseSmart and Kno recently launched innovative, interactive dashboards that help increase student learning outcomes by providing valuable feedback on how students engage with course material, but McGraw - Hill High Education announced today that its launch of such a dashboard is aimed at a very specific demographic of students.SCOREboard, the latest McGraw - Hill platform, is the first of its kind learning tool that helps students prepare for Advanced Placement courses and exams.

«A higher education institution publishes a lot of content that is not textbooks.

South Korea has already put into place an initiative to digitize all textbooks in public schools and higher education.

The company, which was the first major retailer to offer a multi-channel textbook rental program, announced it has expanded that highly successful program to nearly all of its Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores this semester, offering significant savings of more than 50 percent over a new printed book for millions of higher education students and their families.

Digital, Rental and Used Textbooks Provide Savings of 25 to 75 New York, New York — August 15, 2011 — As financially strapped higher education students head back to campus for the new school year, many will find dramatic savings and great convenience at their Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores.

The new digital textbook section has offerings from most major publishers such as Pearson, Wiley, Macmillian Higher Education, McGraw - Hill and Cengage Learning.

So why has the Book Industry Study Group, (BISG), found that only 11 % of higher education students in the U.S. have utilized digital textbook rental services?

The administration realized that the students needed to be on top of the technology that they would be using in higher education and the workforce, and they adopted something else when they adopted digital textbooks: an attitude that this is vital in today's climate.

A recent report stated that only 11 % of higher education students in the U.S. have utilized digital textbook rental services.

The company currently offers content from over 65 textbook publishers and over 200k digital titles for K - 12 and higher education... [Read more...]

While the concept of digital textbooks at the higher education level became a widespread topic of discussion in the past couple of years, new movements in digital publishing have made digital textbooks a more viable option in even public education.

GoodeReader reported on digital textbook publisher CourseSmart's involvement in a multi-year study by STEPP (STudent Erent Pilot Project) on how the rental of digital textbooks are affecting learning outcomes at the higher education level, with a special focus on providing easier and more cost effective accessibility... [Read more...]

Google Textbooks offers a wide array of content from well - known publishers like Pearson, Wiley, Macmillan Higher Education, Random House, McGraw - Hill and Cengage Learning.

Through agreements with top publishers like Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press, and more, Coursera is working on creating free digital textbooks for its course participants for the duration of the course; participants who want to own the digital title for referencing without a timeline will be able to purchase low - cost ebook editions.

The real winners in the digital textbook world, obviously, will be the students attempting to afford the rising costs of higher education.

Those students who continue their educations and progress to the higher levels of their specific programs will still use more specialized textbooks for their fields of study.

In Alabama, for example, where the state board of education adopts textbooks on a ten - year rotation in each subject due to the high costs of examining materials and purchasing new textbooks, social studies textbooks were approved in 2009 and will not be approved again until 2019; science books will not be adopted again until 2020.

Tom Malek, Vice President of Learning Solutions for textbook publisher McGraw - Hill's higher education division, wrote a thought - provoking guest post for Forbes.com, which columnist Janet Novak shared with the full - disclosure statement that she is, herself, the mother of two college students.

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College's product margins improved during the quarter on a higher mix of higher margin textbook rentals, while expenses increased due to new store growth and continued investments in digital education.

CourseSmart, a leading supplier of e-textbooks for higher education, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education... [Readeducation, shared the results of a two - year study on the use of digital textbooks which had been commissioned by Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) and AccessText Network (ATN) following a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education... [ReadEducation... [Read more...]

NOOKstudy is a free application for PC and Mac computers developed for the higher education market that gives students easy access to eTextbooks, syllabi, lecture notes, etc., with features like being able to add notes, highlight, search, zoom, and have multiple textbooks and pages open at the same time.

Textbooks under the following brands will be available: Addison - Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman & Prentice Hall (Pearson); Wadsworth, Brooks / Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle, Schirmer, South - Western (Cengage); and Wiley Higher Education.

The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 included provisions to lower the cost of college textbooks.