Last week the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that the Georgia State Senate are currently considering whether to adopt Apple’s new textbook platform for middle school students. According to state Senator Tommie Williams: “Last week we met with Apple Computers, and they have a really promising program where they come in and their recommending to middle [...]
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Georgia to replace middle school textbooks with the iPad
February 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments · digital textbooks
Columbia Law School to host conference on copyright
January 1st, 2011 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
Next month the Columbia Law School will be hosting a symposium titled “Collective Management of Copyright: Solution or Sacrifice?”. The dream of a universal digital library and other potential large-scale uses of copyrighted works have led many in the private and the public sector alike to focus their attention on collective management organizations (CMOs). The [...]
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EBSCO Publishing extends TTS to school and public library Databases
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has added text-to-speech (read aloud) support to EBSCOhost®databases, including its major school and public library databases, by embedding Texthelp Systems’ SpeechStream toolbar—a valuable benefit provided at no additional cost to the user. Users will be able to take advantage of this new feature with any full-text articles available [...]
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Virginia State U. Business School came to their senses on digital textbooks
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The VSU School of Business have taken what i’d call the next logical step in textbooks. They’ve signed a volume purchase contract with Flat World Knowledge. Here’s the thing. Given that 1 student registered for a class = 1 textbook needed (more or less), why not build the textbook cost into the class fees? Yes, [...]
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iPads coming to a private school in Scotland
August 18th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
The computer teacher for a private school in Scotland has been blogging about his experience in getting iPads into the classroom. Since this is an ongoing series of posts I think it’s worth adding to an RSS Reader. He’s faced some interesting problems. Logistics, for example. Each Ipad has to be authorized to an iTunes [...]
UC Irvine Med School find new way to increase cost of tuition
August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
They gave out iPads to first year med students last week. From PhysOrg.com: At an annual ceremony Aug. 6, UC Irvine’s incoming medical students were presented with their first white coats – the traditional garb of physicians everywhere. They then received something untraditional: Apple iPad tablet computers loaded with everything necessary for the initial year [...]
Ontario closes book on digital texts at school
May 7th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the Toronto Sun: It’s not the future yet. Premier Dalton McGuinty said he believes it’s too soon to begin equipping Ontario students with electronic textbooks. “I think that over time we are probably going to make a transition to more technology-based reading and learning for our students,” McGuinty said Wednesday. “But my fear is [...]
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