Nov
2
Three California-Adopted Digital Textbooks and What They Tell Us About the Disruption
November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
CLRN is fortunate to be located at the Stanislaus County Office of Education, which also houses a Learning Resource Display Center (LRDC). Ours is one of 30 LRDCs in California where local educators can peruse adopted textbooks before making purchases. So, when my curiosity led me to investigate the current state of digital textbooks created [...]
Oct
29
Digital Textbooks: Is it a Revolution if Everyone is on the Same Side?
October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
After I wrote about Oregon’s adoption of an online, interactive textbook, Nancy Silva correctly reminded me that California has also opened the door to electronic textbooks. In 2007, California’s State Board of Education adopted no less than 15 digital-only textbook series for mathematics from nine publishers. While the great majority are CD or DVD-based, several [...]
Oct
28
Digital Textbooks: Oregon Adopts an Electronic Textbook
October 28, 2009 | 3 Comments
While many states talk about digital textbooks and some even pass legislation enabling their use, Oregon has taken a giant leap by adopting an electronic textbook for K-8 science.
Discovery Education Science – Elementary and Middle School Solutions were adopted by the Oregon State Board of Education at their October 23, 2009 meeting. Oregon, which has [...]
Jun
29
Free Digital Textbook Initiative: The New Model
June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Today’s post is about how I believe the textbook industry’s upcoming changes will parallel those that emerged from the music industry, which is just completing their morphing. I’d like to thank several of you who commented, particularly “Zingy Learning” who tweeted, “I’m wondering, even if the publishing companies moved to digital media would they be [...]
