The villain cheating students and faculty
There is a pervasive villain that strikes at the very heart of higher education. Its wound is painless yet powerful; victims don’t even know their academic life has…
etextbooks
eTextbooks are as polarizing as ever in higher ed
The eTextbook revolution has been coming for quite some time, but if recent national survey results are any indication, acceptance of nontraditional textbooks isn't even close to critical…
Students want more class assignments available on mobile devices
A survey, conducted by CourseSmart and Wakefield Research, asked 500 American college students about their dependence on devices, their opinions on eTextbooks and their views toward the rising…
Students, faculty want more support for eTextbooks
Faculty are struggling to find the time and support to actually adopt eTextbooks in the classroom, according to a new study released by the Educause Center for Analysis…
New initiative targets accessible open resources
Postsecondary educators report growing challenges to implementing open educational resources (OERs), the most problematic being time loss spent combing multiple sources for supplemental educational material. But a new…
Viewpoint: Thinking outside the book
eTextbooks already have triggered what is shaping up to be a seismic upheaval in the way we think about academic course material. Digital materials offer highly mobile, on-demand…
Colleges taking a team approach to eTextbooks
Reining in exorbitant textbook costs is no longer a campus-by-campus venture: A unified approach, powered by EDUCAUSE and the Internet2 consortium's NET+ cloud-based collaborative purchasing program, could make…
eBook pilot could save college students a ‘huge amount of money’
The University of Wisconsin (UW) Madison campus and five other major universities announced plans this week to try buying electronic textbooks in bulk, an experiment that officials say…
Dean: Training should precede eBook use
Trine University students can highlight text, take digital notes, or chat about their latest readings from their eTextbooks starting this spring semester. But first, one school official said,…