Digital textbooks debut for some courses at MU COLUMBIA, Mo. -- In some University of Missouri classes, the big, expensive college textbook is no longer necessary. Students instead can buy and ...

Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 ...

Welcome to today’s online chat about the benefits and drawbacks of electronic textbooks. In what ways are digital textbooks more effective learning tools than their print counterparts? Conversely, ...

Pearson Education announced Thursday that it would create digital versions of about 100 of its top-selling college textbooks for the fall of 2001. Pearson’s push into digital textbooks is significant ...

Days before the Obama administration pushed for connecting every child to an e-textbook by 2017, Utah officials announced plans to release statewide open-source, digital textbooks this coming fall.

TOKYO >> Making digital textbooks “official textbooks” that will be free and screened by the government, just like physical textbooks, is the focus of a draft report for the Japan education minister’s ...

Back when she was a student at UMass Lowell, Assist. Teaching Prof.Yahayra Michel’07 ’09 would make a beeline to the campus bookstore at the start of each semester to grab used textbooks for her ...

Teachers in Coon Rapids, Minnesota had all but disposed of their school district’s statistics textbook, constantly replacing its outdated information with their own notes and homework problems. When ...

Apple's education announcement last month seems to have stoked the fire under those who want to see the move to digital textbooks -- a move that is seen as inevitable, if only because that seems to be ...

Shortly after his world history students began a pilot program testing a digital textbook for the iPad, Ken Halla noticed something different: His students were actually reading their textbooks. “How ...