Sentences with phrase «of electronic textbooks»

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.

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.

Unlike the creation of electronic textbooks, where you create the module and then walk away and leave the learning to the students, with electronic conferencing you have to work with your students all the time.

«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.

Not exact matches

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 homework booklet questions have been sourced from the end of Chapter questions within the OCR textbook and typed up as no electronic copy was available.

This is end of Module 2 Assessment which has been typed up from inside the OCR textbook as there was no electronic version available.

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.

Looking like Himalayan porters, kids stagger off to school carrying packs and bags that burst with up to 20 pounds of textbooks, electronic gear, gym clothes, even musical instruments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Very good question, some publishers currently provide electronic versions of their textbooks and other resources, our students are already accessing them from their phones!

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.

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

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.

Publisher - provided electronic versions of selected textbooks contain additional resources, such as video clips, text - to - speech, auto - graded practice tests, and valuable support material.

With the help of Vail's ongoing professional development, Beyond Textbooks partners are trained on: the philosophy and practices of the Beyond Textbooks framework; effective implementation strategies; and the technical facilitation of the Beyond Textbooks electronic delivery system (including how to access all of Vail's digital curriculum calendars, unwrapped documents, formative assessments, and teacher created resources that are congruent to selected essential standards, as well as how to contribute to the digital resources that are accessible to all Vail and Beyond Textbooks partner teachers).

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.

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.

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

(AP)-- Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger - and more expensive - version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks.

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.

Furthermore there are no used e-books, where as at least a second hand market has sprung up around textbooks and one can often even rent at cheaper prices than a electronic texts (though of course the publishers of have attempted to quash this with their endless rehashed and reshuffled 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.

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, many textbook publishers already publish electronic editions of their books.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They found that physical textbooks were the medium of choice, with 92 % of the respondents saying they preferred print over an array of electronic devices.

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.

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

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

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.»

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.

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.

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.