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Information Today
July 16, 2013 |
Vital Source Debuts Building Block for Blackboard Learn Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group's etextbook solution, launched the Building Block etextbook platform, which integrates its VitalSource Bookshelf with Blackboard Learn, Blackboard's learning management system.   |
Information Today
February 16, 2012 |
Ingram's Vital Source Now Working With Blackboard Ingram's Vital Source is now providing access to its etextbook platform through Blackboard Learn, one of the most widely used learning management systems. |
Information Today
August 1, 2013 |
VitalSource Bookshelf Offers Etextbooks to the Middle East and Africa Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, partnered with Panworld Education to make the VitalSource Bookshelf available in the Middle East and North Africa. |
Information Today
May 14, 2012 |
Cengage Learning and Blackboard Introduce Digital Content Integration An integrated solution gives instructors and students streamlined access to Cengage Learning's digital learning solutions and core curriculum content directly through the Blackboard Learn learning management system. |
Information Today
November 5, 2012 |
CourseSmart Launches CourseSmart Subscription Pack Up to 20 institutions will be invited to participate in a trial of the CourseSmart Subscription Pack, a one-stop shopping experience where students can buy all of their etextbooks from one website for one subscription price over a fixed access period. |
Information Today
October 7, 2013 |
VitalSource Bookshelf Opens British E-Store Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group, Inc.'s etextbook solution, recently launched an e-store in the U.K. for VitalSource Bookshelf ebooks. |
Information Today
December 6, 2012 |
Ingram's VitalSource Platform Gains 60 New Publishers Vital Source Technologies, Inc., Ingram Content Group's etextbook solution for publishers, academic institutions, and students, announced that 60 new publishers have added more than 35,000 new digital textbooks and online course materials to its VitalSource Bookshelf platform. |
Information Today
February 16, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Etextbooks Attracting Involvement of the FCC, Education Department, and Higher Ed The focus on etextbooks continues as even the federal government makes major strides into taking the school textbook into the 21 st century. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2004 |
Maple T.A. Building Block This integration of Maple T.A and Blackboard Learning System gives students and instructors access to all testing and assessment functionalities of Maple T.A., while requiring a single login point to access both systems. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000 |
Channel into the Internet Blackboard Inc. announces the launch of Blackboard.com, an e-Learning Web site with three channels that provide customizable, subject-specific academic resources; global, interactive communities for students and instructors; and Blackboard's online course creation capability... |
The Motley Fool
May 13, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Blackboard's Textbook Quarter The educational software solutions provider reports strong growth and upped its guidance for the year to earnings of $22 million to $23 million, which translates into $0.78 to $0.81 per share. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 22, 2010
David Nagel |
Blackboard To Take Learn Platform Mobile Blackboard is preparing to release Blackboard Mobile Learn, a new version of the company's flagship learning management system tailored for smart phones and other mobile devices. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2005 |
Ed Tech Community Supports Katrina Victims Several education companies such as Kinetic Books and Learning Today are providing free technology resources to students who were displaced by two recent hurricanes. |
Information Today
April 5, 2012 |
Android Etextbook App Available From Ingram's Vital Source As students look for more ways to interact with digital textbooks, they are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets powered by the Android operating system. |
Information Today
September 23, 2014
Woody Evans |
NISO on Ebooks: Dynamic, Open, and Cheap National Information Standards Organization hosted a webinar on E-books for Education, which explored definitions, content, access, and open access issues affecting the present state and future course of ebooks for education. |
Information Today
October 20, 2011 |
Blackboard Announces New Open Education Initiatives Blackboard Inc. will now support publishing, sharing, and consumption of open educational resources across its platforms. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Richard Gibbons |
Blackboard's Screeching IPO Educational software provider Blackboard has some strong competitive advantages, but investors should be cautious. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000
Chris Zirkle |
Preparing Technical Instructors Through Multiple Delivery Systems: A Working Model Instructors in all educational circles are in need of constant professional development and technical updates. In response to these pressures and many others, several institutions are seeking to improve their educational programs with new information technology tools... |
Information Today
February 27, 2012 |
Cengage Learning to Provide Discounted Etextbooks to California State University This 3-year contract will allow more than 400,000 students on 23 campuses to access Cengage Learning eTextbooks at a substantial cost savings. |
Information Today
August 23, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Enhances CengageBrain.com The website, which allows students to purchase or rent textbooks, ebooks, or individual echapters and download study tools, features a more intuitive interface for students |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2002
Judy A. Serwatka |
Improving Student Performance in Distance Learning Courses This article concentrates on the problems encountered and the solutions developed while teaching two college networking courses in the distance learning format... |
Information Today
August 22, 2011 |
Textbook Rental Firm Chegg to Add Etextbooks In addition to textbook rentals, Chegg has rapidly enhanced its services, offering a fully integrated experience with digital services, including homework help, course selection, and class notes. |
Information Today
November 3, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
IT Trends Revealed at EDUCAUSE Unveiled in Indianapolis were the top 10 IT issues of 2016. EDUCAUSE grouped the issues into three themes: Differentiate, Reinvest, and Divest. |
BusinessWeek
September 20, 2004
Catherine Yang |
Big Program On Campus Over half of U.S. colleges have embraced Blackboard's classroom-boosting features. Giving students one centralized site on the Net to get course outlines, lecture notes, and reading materials is just the beginning. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2003
Linda Cooper |
Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Online Courses Provide a Global Education Experience In an attempt to improve students' understanding of global issues, schools are seeking new ways to incorporate international education into their curriculum. |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2003
W. Joy Lopez |
Content Delivery for a Virtual High School We used a variety of technology tools to develop a program that delivers core high school course material. These technology tools and delivery models had to align with the beliefs laid out by our team. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2005 |
Blackboard's New Site: Communitysite Blackboard's CommunitySite is a new site that encourages interaction among the growing community of Blackboard users. |
Information Today
March 4, 2010
Barbara Quint |
DynamicBooks Opens Etextbooks for Faculty Customization Using the software, faculty will be able to edit and delete text and add content, including multimedia and web links. Other publishers besides Macmillan have launched their own curricular tools. |
Information Today
October 25, 2010 |
Cengage Learning Releases CourseReader Cengage Learning has introduced CourseReader, a customized, digital collection of content assets for the classroom, further strengthening its CengageCourse suite of digital learning products and services. |
Information Today
February 19, 2015
Woody Evans |
Google for Education Is Giving Away the Classroom Google for Education can no longer brush off its parallels to other big, for-profit LMSs as "just some apps to help students." We're well beyond Google Docs and Hangouts now. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005
Podoll & Randle |
Building a Virtual High School...click by click South Dakota's Rapid City Academy finds out just what it takes to provide a diverse population of students the flexibility offered by online learning. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 5, 2009
Dian Schaffhauser |
Blackboard and Microsoft Team To Put Course Info on Bing Blackboard and Microsoft have joined forces to offer students access to information from their online courses on Web browsers. |
Information Today
August 27, 2013 |
Chegg Unveils Updated Mobile App Chegg just released a redesigned version of its mobile app for etextbook reading. The app, which is available for Apple and Android devices, has more than 2.5 million guided solutions to help students. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2003
Peter E. Williams |
Will a Digital Textbook Replace Me, the Teacher? A number of excellent digital textbooks are beginning to surface, delivering information in an interesting and interactive manner to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. But, where does that leave educators? |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2000 |
Organize Your Course Materials on the Web Classpage is a Web-based application that offers high school and college instructors free Web pages for distributing course materials and keeping track of grades.... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2001
Alvin Y. Wang & Michael H. Newlin, University of Central Florida |
Online Lectures: Benefits for the Virtual Classroom Most Web-based courses rely primarily on asynchronous communication to deliver course information to students. With this form of interaction, instructors and students do not interact simultaneously. Most courses would benefit from the addition of synchronous communication... |
Information Today
March 4, 2013
Paula J. Hane |
Etextbook Update The etextbook market is in such flux, that it warrants revisiting frequently. This is a review of some recent noteworthy developments and a discussion of a report on student acceptance. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Lori Weir |
The Importance of Developing and Investing in Online Course Materials That Enrich the Classroom Experience for Special-Needs Students Students with disabilities may be using assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to access online course materials. When developing course materials, ask yourself how a student with a learning disability might perceive the tasks and information. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Blackboard Chalks Up a Deal The leader in educational software continues its growth trend through an integration agreement with Microsoft. Blackboard investors were rewarded with a 15% surge in the stock price. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2002
Lawrence E. Levine |
Using Technology to Enhance the Classroom Environment Much is being written about the use of technology as a teaching and learning tool. However, much of the focus is on distance learning. This article deals with another aspect of this topic, namely, the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning in a classroom environment... |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Julie Reinhart, Tiffany Anderson & Joseph Slowinski |
Creating a Pre-Service Teachers' Virtual Space Issues in Design and Development of Cross-Country Collaboration... |
Information Today
April 22, 2014 |
Alexander Street Press Introduces Database of Business Ebooks The new database makes 500 business etextbooks and reference materials available without digital rights restrictions to worldwide academic, public, and school libraries. |
Information Today
October 17, 2005
Doris Small Helfer |
E-Learning Service Leaders Blackboard and WebCT Merge On Oct. 12, 2005, Blackboard and WebCT, the two leading providers of course management software for e-learning services to the education market, announced plans to merge their companies. |
Information Today
May 23, 2011
Nancy Herther |
McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets. |
Information Today
August 24, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Cengage Learning Rents Textbooks, Re-Brands iChapters.com Net newbies such as BookRenter.com and Chegg offer used textbooks for rental over their websites. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2005
Andrew Patterson |
Blackboard Ruins College For those hoping that Blackboard may eventually go the way of the pet rock, neon leg warmers, or Beanie Babies, despair. This company, a recommended stock pick, has fundamentally changed how professors and students communicate. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 27, 2010 |
A Tool for Its Time A new functionality has so transformed learning management systems that their manufacturers prefer the term digital learning platform, to better reflect their products' capacity to do a great deal more than manage a classroom. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000
Jacquelyn Barker Tulloch |
Sophisticated Technology Offers Higher Education Options Ironically, the use of traditional terminology associated with distance learning is diminishing at a time when the use of technology is gaining ground. Meanwhile, the lines are blurring between distance education and traditional classroom learning... |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |
