TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » education http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Self-Published Books Not a Solution for K-12? Don’t Be So Sure… http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/self-published-books-not-a-solution-for-k-12-dont-be-so-sure/ http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/self-published-books-not-a-solution-for-k-12-dont-be-so-sure/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 18:37:12 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=84493 Christopher Harris has a thought-provoking essay up at The Digital Shift in which he argues that self-published books are “not a solution” for K-12. He argues that publishers “serve a critical role in the information ecosystem” by vetting and recommending quality books to school librarians, who often work alone without the benefits of a large [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/self-published-books-not-a-solution-for-k-12-dont-be-so-sure/feed/ 1 The Associated Press is digitizing its corporate archives http://www.teleread.com/education/gale-partners-with-the-associated-press-to-digitize-holdings/ http://www.teleread.com/education/gale-partners-with-the-associated-press-to-digitize-holdings/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:11:35 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=83055 This is something of a big story for old-school news geeks: Two days ago, an organization known as Gale, which is part of the Kentucky-based Cengage Learning, a digital solutions provider, announced an agreement with the Associated Press to digitize [its] corporate archives, “including millions of pages of news copy (some never-before published), bureau records, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/education/gale-partners-with-the-associated-press-to-digitize-holdings/feed/ 1 For more free textbooks, look at iTunes U http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/free-textbooks-from-itunes-u/ http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/free-textbooks-from-itunes-u/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:48:07 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=81125 By Dr. Frank Lowney This past weekend, Dr. Frank Lowney, an occasional TeleRead contributor, brought to our attention an online archive of free, Creative Commons licensed university textbooks known as the Flatworld Knowledge Book Archive. We heard from Dr. Lowney again yesterday; he told us that “another, larger source of free e-textbooks can actually be found [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/free-textbooks-from-itunes-u/feed/ 0 A legitimate archive of free textbooks http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-legitimate-link-to-free-entry-level-university-textbooks/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-legitimate-link-to-free-entry-level-university-textbooks/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:19:31 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=81061 I received an email earlier this week from Dr. Frank Lowney, an occasional TeleRead contributor, and the author of The Coming ePublishing Revolution in Higher Education. Dr. Lowney, who is professionally affiliated with Georgia College & State University, most definitely knows his stuff when it comes to college textbooks, and higher education in general. That’s important [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-legitimate-link-to-free-entry-level-university-textbooks/feed/ 0 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp unveils its own Android tablet http://www.teleread.com/education/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-unveils-its-own-android-tablet/ http://www.teleread.com/education/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-unveils-its-own-android-tablet/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:19:38 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=80845 We learned today that the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation has unveiled a 10-inch Android tablet designed specifically for schoolchildren. Known as the Amplify Tablet (Amplify is also the name of the News Corp’s education division), the $299 slate was presented earlier today at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas. Amplify sales reps are said to be [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/education/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-unveils-its-own-android-tablet/feed/ 3 Exploring Technology Overload with Students, Part 2 http://www.teleread.com/education/exploring-technology-overload-with-students-part-2/ http://www.teleread.com/education/exploring-technology-overload-with-students-part-2/#comments Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:10:46 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80461 I wrote a few weeks ago about the health unit I’m doing with my Grade 2 class, exploring technology and how we can use it safely in our lives. Well, our second lesson was delayed by a snow day, so I’ve only now gotten around to lesson two, and it was a doozy! In our [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/whats-happening-to-college-bookstores/feed/ 2 Exploring Technology Overload with Students http://www.teleread.com/education/tech-literacy-part-1-exploring-technology-with-grade-2-students/ http://www.teleread.com/education/tech-literacy-part-1-exploring-technology-with-grade-2-students/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:28:14 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=78251 As my school’s technology coordinator, part of my job is to explore the different ways our students use technology, and how that’s working for us. Are there tools we are under-utilizing? Tools we are over-utilizing? Are there concerns parents have over how their kids are interacting with technology on a daily basis? I learned recently, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/education/10-universities-with-amazing-online-collections/feed/ 0 McGraw-Hill: We don’t need no education publishers http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/mcgraw-hill-we-dont-need-no-education-publishers/ http://www.teleread.com/textbooks/mcgraw-hill-we-dont-need-no-education-publishers/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:21:30 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=75147   By Andy Richardson, CEO of Influential Software It’s a case of another week, another publishing takeover. This week, McGraw-Hill announced that it was offloading its education publishing business, though this time not to another publisher. The private equity arm of investment firm Apollo Global Management will take control of the textbook publisher, which has undershot its revenue targets in seven [...]

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