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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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