Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 ...

The era of digital textbooks seems to be perpetually around the corner. Publishers have made these e-books available for a number of years, yet it’s difficult to find a chemistry professor who uses ...

Colby B. Jubenville is the founder and the director of the Center for Student Coaching and Success on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University. For decades, consumers had little choice but to ...

Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

Student James Montalbano works with teacher Angela Benjamin on a Advanced Placement class in a file photo. Smart digital textbooks could become the next big thing in learning. The idea is that ...

TOKYO >> Making digital textbooks “official textbooks” that will be free and screened by the government, just like physical textbooks, is the focus of a draft report for the Japan education minister’s ...

Melissa Delaney is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Digital textbooks are slowly gaining traction ...

Digital textbooks have gotten a lot of ink in recent months. In January, Apple attracted attention when it announced its foray into the field with the iBook, a multimedia-rich textbook for the iPad ...

Meghan is an associate editor with EdTech. She enjoys coffee, cats and science fiction TV. Students at Indiana University are saving over $3 million every single year thanks to a digital textbook ...

New print textbooks can still cost students hundreds of dollars, but the cost of etextbooks is falling fast, according to data from etextbook distribution platforms VitalSource and RedShelf -- both of ...

Apple refreshes iBooks app to include its new digital textbook service as it looks to increase its presence in the lucrative education market and push adoption of its iPad device within classrooms. In ...

I read with interest Gilbert T. Sewall’s Commentary “Digital Textbooks: They’re Coming—But Will They Be Better?” in your April 7, 2010, issue, but was dismayed to see that the director of the American ...