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Pearson – future of education?

I sometimes check a stock market page to see if my retirement funds are increasing or decreasing. The page offers the basic data on the markets, but also news of the day that may be influencing the markets and specific … Continue reading

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There is more here

I appreciate anyone making the effort to read what I write. Obviously, my blogs tend to focus on educational issues that overlap with the use of technology. As I examine the frequency with which my content is viewed, I have … Continue reading

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ebooks are the future

Librarian and blogger Doug Johnson has a new post on the future of ebooks and concludes that digital books are the future. I have tried to make this same point multiple times mostly challenging the argument that comprehension is better … Continue reading

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What if Universities funded textbooks

A recent post from The Commons proposed that universities might drastically reduce the student cost of textbooks if the institutions funded faculty members to write textbooks. I wrote a couple of textbooks for Houghton Mifflin that eventually ended up with … Continue reading

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Studying an ebook

We just finished an update to our integrating technology textbook. In addition to new content, we transitioned our Kindle book from reflowable to fixed format. This distinction is explained in another post and the fixed format is argued to be … Continue reading

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Objection to the objections

  A recent EdSurge postĀ attemptsĀ to explain resistance to digital textbooks and lists four “issues”. As the author of a digital textbook, I feel the need to respond. 1. Digital textbooks do not offer lifetime access. – First, this is not … Continue reading

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