Sentences with phrase «new electronic textbook»
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To celebrate publishing the first digital volume of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, the Board of Editors invited a distinguished group of librarians, textbook authors and research scholars to contribute essays addressing the changes that new electronic technology has brought to legal research, libraries, publishing and teaching legal research.