Today, Kno, Inc., www.kno.com, a leader in education software, launched Kno Me, a personal study dashboard that helps students measure their engagement with each Kno eTextbook they use. Students can ...

Last spring I wrote about Nature Publishing Group’s plan for a $49 electronic textbook packed with interactivity and unlimited content updates for life. The original publication date was scheduled for ...

Physics textbooks have long relied on static diagrams to explain dynamic phenomena, leaving students to imagine how concepts like motion or energy unfold in real life. However, a new tool called ...

Mary Kay helps BYU student Sean Havas buy a textbook in the BYU Bookstore. RedShelf is trying to create a more interactive experience for students purchasing digital textbooks. The BYU Store and ...

With just an iPad, students in any classroom across the world could soon reimagine the ordinary diagrams in any physics textbook—transforming these static images into 3D simulations that run, leap or ...

A trio of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has created the first-ever fully interactive advanced organic chemistry textbook, called "The Portable Chemist’s Consultant: A Survival Guide ...

A year ago, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnston's big idea: the first interactive marine science textbook. Johnston, who runs a marine biology lab at Duke University, wanted the ...

Nature, the folks who brought you the free life sciences learning community Scitable, are today announcing “Principles of Biology”, a college level electronic textbook. Building upon the ...