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T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010	A Custom Fit K-12 educators need to get a better understanding of open content, for their own benefit as well as their students'.
Information Today January 26, 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Apple Announces Efforts to `Reinvent' Textbooks In an effort to "reinvent" textbooks, Apple unveiled a suite of tools and resources geared to the K-12 education market on Jan. 19 at New York's Guggenheim Museum.
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010	2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience.
T.H.E. Journal May 2008 Charlene O'Hanlon	Content, Anyone? Free and always available, web-based open source materials are providing educators with a fertile, ever-adaptable supply of instructional resources.
Information Today February 16, 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed The focus on etextbooks continues as even the federal government makes major strides into taking the school textbook into the 21 st century.
Information Today May 23, 2011 Nancy Herther	McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al.	Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching.
T.H.E. Journal October 29, 2009 David Nagel	Q&A: iNACOL's Susan Patrick on Trends in eLearning At last count, there were more than 1 million enrollments in K-12 online schools in the United States.
Information Today October 2000	OverDrive Provides E-Book Authoring Tools and Publisher Portals OverDrive, Inc. has announced the release of its ReaderWorks Standard software, which is available as a free download at OverDrive's Web portal...
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012	Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students.
Information Today March 14, 2011 Paula J. Hane	Cengage Learning Introduces New `MindTap' Personal Learning Experience MindTap is a new personalized program of digital products and services that engages students with interactivity while also offering students and instructors choice in content, platform, devices, and learning tools.
T.H.E. Journal April 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	How Would You Like Your Content? Textbooks? Digital? Web-based? Perhaps a bit of each? The Congress on the Future of Content brings publishers and educators together in hopes of settling the issue.
T.H.E. Journal December 2007 Matt Villano	A Handful of Learning Educators are turning to handheld computers to bring multimedia applications such as digital movies and e-books to their students.
T.H.E. Journal October 2006 Kevin Hunter	A Textbook Case The prohibitive cost of purchasing and maintaining textbooks has left our students with outdated materials or none at all. The solution? Print your own.
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Turning the Page James Tracy, as headmaster of Cushing Academy, began to rid the campus library of virtually all of its books in favor of a digital-only collection.
Information Today March 4, 2013 Paula J. Hane	Etextbook Update The etextbook market is in such flux, that it warrants revisiting frequently. This is a review of some recent noteworthy developments and a discussion of a report on student acceptance.
Information Today June 16, 2011	New Britannica Ebook Service for Schools and Libraries Students in elementary school through college can easily access hundreds of high-quality books on the subjects they're studying through a new web-based ebooks service available to schools and libraries from Britannica Digital Learning.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009	Drill Down A new digital curriculum model allows teachers to choose their own instructional materials. The Speak Up 2008 survey gave students the power to handpick content for a new kind of online textbook.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
T.H.E. Journal December 10, 2009 Bridget McCrea	5 K-12 Technology Trends for 2010 These tech trends include greater use of ebook readers, interactive whiteboards, personal devices in the classroom, and more.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Use of technology by teachers... Energy efficient schools... Awards... Industry news...
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2010 John K. Waters	Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical.
T.H.E. Journal December 2007 Matt Bolch	Custom-Built Curriculum Districts are abandoning textbooks and instead picking and choosing their own instructional materials that more closely align to new academic standards.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Jennifer Demski	Free At Last By creating a user-generated, ever-growing library of original digital content, an Arizona school district has liberated its teachers from the restraints of a textbook-driven curriculum model.
T.H.E. Journal May 2009 Rama Ramaswami	Even! But No Longer Odd Once regarded as an unconventional alternative for atypical students, virtual schools have achieved mainstream acceptance, and are now seen as providing an education equal to - if not better than - what their traditional counterpart offers.
T.H.E. Journal July 2004 Anita Givens	Technology Integration: Meeting the Technology Integration Challenge in Texas Schools Deep in the heart of Texas classrooms, students use digital technology to access, analyze and evaluate information; solve problems; and communicate with diverse audiences.
BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Douglas MacMillan	Inkling Publishes Textbooks for iPads With his San Francisco startup, Matt MacInnis is making textbooks iPad-friendly - and teaching them tricks that can't be done in print.
Information Today September 2002 Paula J. Hane	Open eBook Forum Releases Industry Report In late July, the Open eBook Forum released a report that provides industry statistics, which the organization says show solid growth in electronic publishing and a positive significant shift in the perception of electronic book publishing.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Donald T. Hawkins	Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated It is now apparent that the e-book shot missed its mark, and the e-book revolution has fizzled. Indeed, it never really got off the ground. But despite all the gloom and doom surrounding them, e-books are not dead. Indeed, some e-book market segments appear to be stirring to life.
Information Today March 21, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field's New Statistics Textbook/Ebook Sussex University's Andy Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods.
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman	Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.
Information Today March 4, 2010 Barbara Quint	DynamicBooks Opens Etextbooks for Faculty Customization Using the software, faculty will be able to edit and delete text and add content, including multimedia and web links. Other publishers besides Macmillan have launched their own curricular tools.
T.H.E. Journal December 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	Federal Grant Aims To Make Open Content Texts More Accessible With the help of a $100,000 supplemental grant from the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education, Bookshare will begin to make open content textbooks accessible to readers with print disabilities.
Information Today November 9, 2009	OverDrive Brings Audiobook Access to Schools The AudioBook Classroom service allows K-12 schools to provide cost-effective access to a sizable catalog of audiobooks of many different genres and varieties and can be used in different formats.
T.H.E. Journal July 27, 2010	A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Dan Ferber	Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers.
Inc. April 1, 2010 Sarah Kessler	The Race for E-textbook Readers Carrying hefty textbooks may soon be history.
T.H.E. Journal September 2008 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	From Gathering Information to Taking Action Four new projects herald the bold next phase of the Congress on the Future of Content.
Information Today March 2, 2009 Paula J. Hane	Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries Openness is increasingly a characteristic of many sectors and technologies -- open access, open library, open source, open standards, open platforms, and more.
Information Today	DynamicBooks to Offer College Open Textbooks The DynamicBooks platform enables instructors to customize and personalize textbooks that are delivered to the instructor's students using an advanced reader and annotation tool that can be used from most computing devices.
T.H.E. Journal May 2008 Rama Ramaswami	Fill 'Er Up What to do with all those cell phones, PDAs, and iPods tucked away in students' backpacks? Forward-thinking administrators have found a 'smart' solution: Load them with educational content and welcome them into instruction.
T.H.E. Journal May 2003 Peter E. Williams	Will a Digital Textbook Replace Me, the Teacher? A number of excellent digital textbooks are beginning to surface, delivering information in an interesting and interactive manner to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. But, where does that leave educators?
T.H.E. Journal February 1, 2010 John K. Waters	Now What? We put the question to a host of K-12 IT leaders: If you had a one-shot chance to spend a big sum of technology money, where would you begin? Here are their shopping lists.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Geoffrey Fletcher	The Importance of Delivering Classroom Content Via Technology The idea of using technology to deliver content historically has been met with a cool, if not frigid, response from educators. Why? For some answers, we can look to Texas, a leader in this area -- at least from the policy perspective.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2010 Elise Craig	Inkling Reinvents Textbooks for the iPad Inkling is expanding the iPad's uses into the classroom.
The Motley Fool January 19, 2012 Evan Niu	Apple Just Revolutionized Education Apple unveils digital textbooks for the iPad, which will change education forever.
D-Lib July 2001 Lucia Snowhill	E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users...
Information Today April 25, 2011	Flat World Knowledge Releases 'Make It Your Own' Platform for Textbooks The fully-automated system gives professors greater control over textbook content, and the ability, with one click, to make their modified book available to students free online or in multiple, low-cost digital and print formats.