Today the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age. This report highlights the sea change underway in the multi-billion dollar U.S. K-12 instructional materials market enabled by recent technology and intellectual property rights innovations. With a focus on the ultimate impact on student learning, […]
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Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age
September 24th, 2012 by -
Apple, eTextbooks, OER and Mark Twain
January 16th, 2012 byNote: Doug Levin, SETDA executive director, is guest-posting this blog. A quick search online reveals the literally hundreds of articles and blogs being written about this week's forthcoming announcement from one of the nation's world's hottest brands, Apple. It is widely rumored that the announcement will be education-related and address the textbook market. Even the […]
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Comcast Newsmakers: The Shift to Digital and Open Textbooks in K-12
December 12th, 2011 by -
The Texas Textbook Revolution continues
June 30th, 2011 bySenate Bill 6 passed out of the Texas legislature's special session and is headed for Governor Rick Perry's desk where it is expected to be signed. The bill gives Texas school districts much additional flexibility with textbook funds, but it also takes a step back from a reform passed the previous session and injects the […]
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The Digital Disconnect: Revisited
June 6th, 2011 byNote: Doug Levin, SETDA executive director, is guest-posting this blog. In 2001, the Pew Internet & American Life Project commissioned a study on the impact of the internet on education from the American Institutes for Research. Based on work I had been doing over the prior several years in supporting the U.S. Department of Education's […]
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New Indiana textbook law: digital and flexible
May 5th, 2011 byAs I sit here parallel-processing like the youth of today, watching a video stream of the recognition of the National Teacher of the Year and reading legislation recently passed by the Indiana Legislature that codified the change of definition of a textbook first embraced by the Indiana State Board of Education in February 2009, I […]
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Will e-books in education go the way of consumer e-books?
April 19th, 2011 byWhile education has no shortage of trends, not to mention fads, to see where technology in education is going, often you need to look to the consumer world to see the way-cool technologies and related trends. iPods, cell phones, computers, tablets – you name it; the much larger consumer world gets it first and establishes […]
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Indiana Moves Digital
April 12th, 2011 byI spent some time last week talking to educators in Indiana about their efforts to move from print to digital content in their schools. I picked Indiana educators because about two years ago the Indiana State Board of Education changed the definition of a textbook to include electronic materials and the equipment needed to display […]
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The Tipping Point with Digital Textbooks? At least in higher ed.
April 1st, 2011 byFor a few years before I joined SETDA, I was fortunate to be Editorial Director for both a K-12 technology and education publication – T.H.E. Journal – and a higher ed publication – Campus Technology. It was fascinating to read and write about both levels of education and their use of technology and to watch […]
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Tracking Changes in Digital and Open Content
March 18th, 2011 byTracking changes is not only a feature in Microsoft Word, it also is a crucial component of keeping up to date in education. Changes in policy do not come easily in many areas of education, especially in an area as fundamental to education as the content used in the teaching and learning process. However, the […]