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  South Korea’s textbooks to go fully digital by 2015

  2912 readersSouth Korea’s Education Ministry has announced that it will convert all textbooks to digital format by 2015, reports eSchoolNews. The digital textbooks will include supplemental teaching materials and “two-way study methods,” and be available across multiple platforms. (Thanks to Michael von Glahn for the tip.) (Photo: rob.wall)

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  South Korea to Adopt Digital Textbooks by 2015

  2283 readersSouth Korea wants to lighten the load in student’s backpacks, and on Wednesday it announced plans to digitize all textbooks over the next 4 years. It’s not clear yet exactly what hardware will be used by students, but the plan does call for establishing cloud computing abilities in all schools by 2015, With an

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  Grandview School District Says Goodbye to Paper Textbooks

  2944 readersThe Board of Education for this Jefferson County, MO, school district voted on Thursday to a tablet and digital textbooks for all 400 high school students and teachers at Grandview High School. The school had just completed a pilot program which involv...

• Students Warming to E-Textbooks, New Report Says

  601 readers [Press Release] Student Response to Digital Textbooks Climbs, says New BISG Research More students are using the digital format… and are harder to satisfy The popularity of digital textbooks may have hit a tipping point in 2012 as preference by college students climbed significantly, according to new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s ongoing study of

• Medical Students Read More Than Social Study Students – Intriguing Infographic On Student Ereading Habits.

  1332 readersKno, the well known academic education software provider (they started out making monster ereaders for students) have just released the findings of a large scale survey of the academic ereading habits of American students, in which hundreds of students were watched for one semester. As you will see when you scroll down to the Infographic below

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  Majority of U.S. Students Prefer Digital Textbooks

  682 readers Some 58% of U.S. students prefer digital textbooks to print because they’re easier to carry and they are believed to be cheaper than print textbooks, according to a new study from e-textbook publisher Bookboon.com. That said, many students don’t buy textbooks altogether, according to the study, because they are “too expensive” and many students are frustrated

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  Kno adds analytical and flashcard features to its e-textbooks

  572 readersE-textbook provider Kno has not let getting out of the tablet business slow it down. (Indeed, given the lackluster performance of any tablet not made by Apple or Amazon lately, it was probably the wisest move it could have made.) CNet has a report from CES on some new features Kno has been adding to

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  E-Textbook Use Down Among College Students

  1881 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Fewer college students bought and used e-textbooks in the 2011 academic year than in the year prior, according to a new report. While about 6% of the textbooks students bought for courses in the 2010 academic year were digital books, only 3% were digital in 2011, according to

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  Students Still Not Taking to E-Textbooks, New Data Show

  136 readers Despite the benefits of lower costs, lighter backpacks, added features and convenience, students just aren’t taking to e-textbooks, a new study shows. About 6% of students are using a “core digital textbook” as their main course material, according to a new study from the Book Industry Study Group, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of four-year

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  Digital and Higher Education

  1601 readersA study sponsored by the Pearson Foundation for Harris Interactive surveyed 1,214 college students and 200 high-school seniors heading to college.  More than two-thirds of them showed overwhelming interest in tablet devices, and believed that tablets would transform higher education. Interestingly, this same pro-tablet group largely did not own tablets: Only 7 percent of college