Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

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E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

 Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too.
CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big publishers, announced on Wednesday a new tool to help professors and others measure students’ engagement with electronic course materials.
When students use print textbooks, professors can’t track their reading. But as learning shifts online, everything students do in digital spaces can be monitored, including the intimate details of their reading habits.

Students Find E-Textbooks ‘Clumsy’ and Don’t Use Their Interactive Features

From CHE
A recent report... shows that many students find the e-textbooks “clumsy” and prefer print.

 

E-Textbooks Saved Many Students Only $1

Despite the promise that digital textbooks can lead to huge cost savings for students, a new study at Daytona State College has found that many who tried e-textbooks saved only one dollar, compared with their counterparts who purchased traditional printed material.

New Digital Tools Let Professors Tailor Their Own Textbooks

Those looking to create their own texts have lots of options now, from build-your-own-book sites as well as traditional publishers.

see: look at this"Our application provides real-time copyright clearance and an ever-expanding content library along with the ability to add your own materials and articles from the web. And - peer recommendations from colleagues in your discipline can present new possibilities to enrich your courses."

exploreanother one (free stuff): Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime

e-textbooks

HOW A STUDENT-FRIENDLY KINDLE COULD CHANGE THE TEXTBOOK
MARKET: The expected introduction of Amazon's wide-format
Kindle could revolutionize the delivery of textbooks, or the
new product could get as lukewarm a reception as previous
e-book readers.
http://chronicle.com/free/2009/05/17550n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medi
um=en

Free online marketing textbook

Textbook Marketing, Radiohead Style
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3375&utm_source=at&utm
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e-textbooks on demand

College Bookstores to Begin Selling eTextbooks on Demand
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3342&utm_source=at&utm
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3342&utm_source=at&utm

Amazon goes for E-Book reader for textbooks

Amazon Plans to Market Its E-Book Reader to Colleges
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/?id=3268&utm_source=at&utm
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