Holding a whiteboard, the University of Maryland, College Park students scrawled their complaints and posed for a picture. "My name is Justin and I spent $114 on ONE textbook," a student wrote. "My ...
Long gone are the days when the only place to buy college textbooks was the campus bookstore. As textbook prices have skyrocketed so, thankfully, have ways to acquire them for less than the ...
This week I had a chat with the founders of Eleven Learning, a Cambridge Mass based startup with ambitions to re-engineer the economics of the textbook market. Eleven Learning's goal is to create a ...
Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and ...
Don’t be surprised if major publishers show up on campus this fall. In an effort to increase awareness -- and sales -- of digital course materials, publishers are pitching and selling their products ...