Digi textbooks on the rise

This post is an excerpt from 1 in 4 College Textbooks Will Be Digital By 2015.

Sales of digital textbooks still only account for a small fraction of the U.S. college market. But according to the latest report by the social learning platform Xplana, we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the company predicts that in the next five years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of sales for the higher education and career education markets.

That figure is a revision from the company's report last year, which predicted that one in five college textbooks would be digital by the year 2014. Due to the rate at which colleges are embracing digital textbooks, Xplana now projects that sales will grow by 80 to 100% over the next four years.

Free virtual phone number?

This post is an excerpt from TellFi.

Get a virtual Canadian number. Totally free for an entire year.

All the features you want in a virtual phone system – including extensions, forwarding & voicemail. Perfect for small businesses or individuals.

Your future Textbook? Flexbook...

This post is an excerpt from Flexbook.

FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that you can use online or as printed books. You can share FlexBooks, and you can customize them. We provide high-quality online materials that are aligned with national and California textbook standards, and -- because FlexBooks are online -- we can keep them up to date much more easily than printed textbooks. You can use the books just as we provide them, or use only parts of them, or add you own materials or material from the web.

Wow - Check out the data visualization here.,..

I want to see students preparing themselves to study this kind of data...

Khan keeps blowing my mind...

Wow: Printing Organs

Free Math & Science courses from MIT

This post is an excerpt from BLOSSOMS Quick Tour.

MIT
BLOSSOMS is a STEM education initiative. Science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
education is a relatively new way of thinking
about how best to educate high school students
for the workforce and for post-secondary education.
High school education must adapt to the changing
needs of the global economy. All sectors of
the workforce – from entry-level jobs
to more advanced positions – are requiring
workers to have a greater capacity to think
critically, work independently, and apply
an ever widening set of sophisticated skills.
BLOSSOMS aims to increase student interest
in and enthusiasm about careers in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics.