Posts Tagged ‘e-textbooks’

Augmented Reality in a Contact will transform education textbook interface…

December 30th, 2009
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This article explains well, the soon coming developments in augmented reality (AR) which will surely transform the classroom experience from the either/or face-to-face or virtual to real-time experiences augmented with live-feed data. Teachers will need to facilitate learning much differently than today. Mentoring, coaching, guiding, will take on new look. Click the spectrum link under the image above to read the full article.

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New E-textbooks Grade the Students…

September 9th, 2009
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Gotta love this headline! Traditional course management systems (CMS) have been fading with the advent of Web2.0 web-based tools. It is being thought among many that CMSs are only good for attendance and grading. But if the online textbook takes care of grading, isn’t a CMS a bit pricey for taking attendance? And is attendance worth measuring in a time-barrier free cyberworld?

New E-Textbooks Do More Than Inform: They Grade You
McGraw-Hill Higher Education is introducing e-textbooks that let students jump from a chapter to the relevant portion of a lecture and get their homework automatically graded.

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