SimpleTuition Acquires ValoreBooks
In an acquision that has been largely known for a while, official word finaly will come today to confirm the purchase of Valorebooks.com by Simple Tuition. SimpleTuition has spent the last year...
View ArticleA Race to the Bottom, the End of Online Textbook Sales
Okay, the sky isn’t falling (yet), I just wanted to get your attention. But with rush almost over, we need to discuss an alarming trend that is starting to come into clearer picture: Internet prices...
View ArticleOER: A Push Toward Mainstream – Gov Jerry Brown Signs Bill into Law!
Open Educational Resources (OER) are not new but they are not exactly commonplace or well understood within the educational community or beyond. OER is content that is provided free through an open...
View ArticleChuck Jones – The Court Documents
It seems the wholesale textbook industry is still buzzing over the fall of SE Books and the court cases involving Chuck Jones. I would have to agree that it may make for a very compelling TV mini...
View ArticleTextbook Guru – Recap
Another rush has ended and before we know it the holiday’s will be here. As we end the 3rd quarter I thought I would do another round up of the some of the most-important and most-read Textbook Guru...
View Articlere:boot – does education need one?
Today, in a few minutes, I will be online following a conference in California on the state of education. Come on line and check it out with me. http://www.20mm.org/live.html The agenda looks really...
View ArticleFlat World Knowledge – Free Textbooks
In the past I have done reviews of the textbooks and platform at Flat World Knowledge. In December 2012, Flat World announced a change to their business model which previous to this change always gave...
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): An Overview
I have been hopefully following the movement towards more affordable education for a while now, primarily tracking the growth of digital textbooks and their impact on the high prices student’s pay for...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules in Favor of Student Seller, Against Textbook Publishers
In a decision of great consequence to our industry (as well as to all things copyright), the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled 6-3 in favor of allowing resellers who buy copyrighted products abroad to...
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Udacity
Welcome back to our series on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Today we are taking a look at one of the largest platforms in the field, Udacity. In case you missed it, we’ve already looked at the...
View ArticleSimpleTuition Acquires ValoreBooks
In an acquision that has been largely known for a while, official word finaly will come today to confirm the purchase of Valorebooks.com by Simple Tuition. SimpleTuition has spent the last year...
View ArticleA Race to the Bottom, the End of Online Textbook Sales
Okay, the sky isn’t falling (yet), I just wanted to get your attention. But with rush almost over, we need to discuss an alarming trend that is starting to come into clearer picture: Internet prices...
View ArticleOER: A Push Toward Mainstream – Gov Jerry Brown Signs Bill into Law!
Open Educational Resources (OER) are not new but they are not exactly commonplace or well understood within the educational community or beyond. OER is content that is provided free through an open...
View ArticleChuck Jones – The Court Documents
It seems the wholesale textbook industry is still buzzing over the fall of SE Books and the court cases involving Chuck Jones. I would have to agree that it may make for a very compelling TV mini...
View ArticleTextbook Guru – Recap
Another rush has ended and before we know it the holiday’s will be here. As we end the 3rd quarter I thought I would do another round up of the some of the most-important and most-read Textbook Guru...
View Articlere:boot – does education need one?
Today, in a few minutes, I will be online following a conference in California on the state of education. Come on line and check it out with me. http://www.20mm.org/live.html The agenda looks really...
View ArticleFlat World Knowledge – Free Textbooks
In the past I have done reviews of the textbooks and platform at Flat World Knowledge. In December 2012, Flat World announced a change to their business model which previous to this change always gave...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): An Overview
I have been hopefully following the movement towards more affordable education for a while now, primarily tracking the growth of digital textbooks and their impact on the high prices student’s pay for...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules in Favor of Student Seller, Against Textbook Publishers
In a decision of great consequence to our industry (as well as to all things copyright), the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled 6-3 in favor of allowing resellers who buy copyrighted products abroad to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): Udacity
Welcome back to our series on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Today we are taking a look at one of the largest platforms in the field, Udacity. In case you missed it, we’ve already looked at the...
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