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shows that the percentage of students reporting they had downloaded course content from an unauthorized Web site has risen steadily to 34 percent from 20 percent when it was first measured in 2010. “Students increasingly look for alternatives to traditional texts downloading of unauthorized content on the rise” From the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)

62 Cell Press journal articles that correspond with chapters in the text.ģ.

48 “drag and drop” widgets to test knowledge of elements within a figure by dragging the appropriate label to the segment on the screen that it describes.

36 “hot spot” interactive learning widgets where the reader is prompted to select the area of the figure described by a keyword using the touch screen.

32 animations that bring abstract and complex concepts to life within the pages of the book.

The interactive digital learning tools are designed to serve the needs of students, researchers and professors, and include:

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The enhanced ePub3 version of Molecular Biology showcases Apple’s iBook functionality by combining self-testing digital widgets and high-quality primary research materials, all available offline and off-network. Elsevier Publishes Molecular Biology as Enhanced ePub3 Book Right now, Inkling has around 550 titles available for iPhone, iPad and web.Ģ. Elsevier will also bring 650 existing medical textbooks to the platform. Pearson - along with McGraw Hill - has already invested in Inkling a couple times, but now Inkling’s cloud-based publishing platform, Habitat, will serve as both Pearson and Elsevier’s primary digital content development platform, with all of their new digital content being constructed through it. iPad publisher Inkling nabs $16M and partners with Pearson and Elsevier (via paidContent) The pilot shed light not just on the usability of McGraw-Hill textbooks in Courseload but more broadly on the value of digital materials in higher education at this time.ĭirect to Executive Summary (via EDUCAUSE 8 pages, PDF) Three More Textbook/eTextbook Newsġ.

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Twenty-three colleges and universities collaborated with Internet2, EDUCAUSE, the publisher McGraw-Hill, and the e-textbook platform provider Courseload to deliver free digital versions of textbooks to over 5,000 students and faculty in 393 undergraduate and graduate courses with a median class size of 28. A publicly accessible executive summary can be downloaded on theEDUCAUSE website. The main report is available through subscription to ECAR. First, our headline story then THREE additional reports about textbooks/e-textbooks.Ĭost is the primary motivation for moving from paper textbooks to digital versions, according to a new report by the EDUCAUSE Center For Analysis and Research (ECAR), based on the Fall 2012 EDUCAUSE-Internet2 E-textbook pilot.