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• in Cloud Computing
  Irish Textbooks Going Into the Cloud
  Irish Textbooks will be available through Microsoft Azure in effort to bring Irish education online
  by evilwife / on Feb 9, 2012
• in Business
  Apple Launches Digital Textbooks, but Amazon May Enjoy the Boost
  With Apple’s iPad at $500, will digital textbooks grow Apple’s sales, or those of Amazon’s "Kindle Fire?"
  by donckster / on Jan 24, 2012
• in IT
  Jobs' Final Wish - iTextbooks
  Apple unveils suite of new applications to revolutionize textbooks
  by evilwife / on Jan 20, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “textbooks”

 

• Open Course Library Expands Free Content

  
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  Advocates of the Open Course Library (OCL) estimate it has saved students about $5 million on course materials in just a few years. Now, the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges has expanded the library’s offerings to include 81 of the most common community college classes. The OCL ...
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• Turkish PM visits Apple, Google & Microsoft ahead of tender for 10.6m tablets for schools

  
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  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan has visited Apple, Google and Microsoft in the run-up to a tender for 10.6 million tablets for use in Turkish schools as part of a major modernization program in which textbooks will be replaced by tablets and chalkboards by electronic whiteboards …
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• Thrifty Finds

  
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    Im really behind on posting about my thrift finds! I only go thrifting maybe twice a month, if that. On my trips though I always hit the jackpot! I also only purchase things I either need or can immediately use. Otherwise it wouldnt be thrifty! These finds are from Goodwill, local thrift, and flea market trips.  ...
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• Conflict of Laws (Hornbook Series and Other Textbooks)

  
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  List Price: $ 95.00 Last checked best price : Kindly click the buy button to get latest prices Thank you for visiting AttorneyNext. Support us by buying products through our links. Authoritative text deals with interstate and international private litigation, business planning, estate planning, and administration. The ...
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• Prepare for the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam

  
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  Pursing a certificate as a Nursing Assistant is a very exciting adventure. The curriculum generally lasts from four to twelve weeks depending on the requirements in your state. Federal regulations require a minimum of seventy five hours of training. You Nursing Assistant course will be composed of classroom training, ...
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• Self-Published Books Not a Solution for K-12? Don’t Be So Sure…

  
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  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 ...
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• Ingram’s Vital Source receives Telly awards for educational video production

  
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  Streaming video is huge in my academic library, so it’s nice to see innovation and awards in the library/information community for this area.  There is quite an esteemed list of previous Telly winners so congrats to Ingram. NASHVILLE, TN – Ingram Content Group Inc., today announced that Vital Source ...
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• Website allows students to rent out textbooks and earn money

  
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    A new web site permits scholars to earn money hiring out their textbooks to scholars across the country. Based out of Ogden, Utah campusbookrentals.com permits scholars to send in their used textbooks so as to lease them out to scholars in need. Founder and Chief Executive of Campus Book Rentals, Alan Martin, had ...
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• Up for Discussion: Future of Course Materials

  
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  Not so long ago, the textbook supply chain looked something like this: An author, often a professor, would write a textbook. A publisher would edit and print it. Faculty would select the book for class. The campus bookstore would order it. Students would come to the store to buy a copy. If the store could snag used ...
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• A Once Proud People Begin a Fight Against Hopelessness

  
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  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Arizona Republic ran a fantastic story on their front page of this Sunday’s edition  on Navajo schools in Arizona and the efforts underway to turn them around. The story shows how school grading, digital learning and immigration reform can help people who have taken a ...
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• More on Utah Open Textbooks

  
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  The Salt Lake Tribune has published a great article on Utah’s transition to open textbooks. But perhaps the most enlightening part of the article isn’t in the article at all – it’s this comment: The books are open source, meaning that the person who wrote the book is doing it for the goodness of mankind ...
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• Utah Open Science Textbooks for 2013-2014

  
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  The Utah State Office of Education has posted their open science textbooks for grades 7 – 12 for the coming school year. Here are some of the highlights: Based on the CK-12 Foundation ‘s open science textbooks Customized specifically for Utah students by Utah teachers Each book’s Table of Contents is ...
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• Open Textbooks and the Student Debt Crisis

  
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  Loans (Photo credit: zingbot)Daniel De Vise at The Washington Post reported that student loan debt is now at "$870 billion nationally, surpassing the nation’s outstanding balance on auto loans ($730 billion) and credit cards ($693 billion)." This is according to the report "Grading Student Loans," a source  that De ...
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• Online Resources Will Upend the Textbook Industry

  
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  Himanshu Sareen Can a free tablet app render traditional textbooks and publishers obsolete? Will new software for grading papers and short essays replace teachers? Education has experienced a wave of progress in recent times thanks to open education resources, online colleges and mobile computing. Not only have ...
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