Education
April 7, 2016 at 2:06 pm
BOSTON — March 30, 2016 — Global learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the Beta launch of HMH Marketplace, a new online destination that offers teachers, edtech developers and technology companies the opportunity to share resources and solutions for the classroom with a broad educator audience. With over 3,000 resources available at launch…
April 5, 2016 at 2:14 pm
NEW YORK and FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — April 4, 2016 — Rosen Publishing today announced an exclusive agreement with Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, for rights to the Greenhaven Press, Lucent Books, and KidHaven Press imprints. Rosen Publishing will be responsible for creating and selling new titles under each of these brands and will…
April 5, 2016 at 2:01 pm
In March, I attended the Ricoh Publishing Executive Symposium to learn about digital book printing and its evolving role within the book industry. The event gathered a number of book manufacturers and publishers in order to discuss the latest innovations in digital printing technology and how those innovations are reshaping the business. According to printing…
April 4, 2016 at 1:34 pm
In a dark room at the University of Maryland (UMD) College Park, Amitabh Varshney is surrounded by a massive curved projector screen, giving an audience a glimpse of the futuristic technologies being developed by engineers. Varshney is the director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. This week, he led a presentation…
March 29, 2016 at 1:49 pm
On March 15th I attended the Ricoh Publishing Executive’s Symposium to learn about digital book printing and its evolving role within the book industry . The event gathered the entire book supply chain, including book manufacturers and publishers, and shared some of the latest advancements in digital printing technology. The Symposium emphasized that these developments…
March 28, 2016 at 1:13 pm
When librarian Jennifer Nelson arrives at the tiny library at Crewe Primary School each morning, she is confronted with a cart of first-generation iPads. The detritus of attempts to infuse technology into one of the poorest and most rural schools in Virginia, the tablets are hopelessly obsolete, worth little more than the cart on which…
March 28, 2016 at 10:33 am
One topic of discussion at Digital Book World earlier this month was the degree to which the “Big 4” technology companies -- Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google -- are setting the agenda for what happens in the publishing industry. In the K-12 sector of the industry, however, it has seemed -- until recently -- that…
March 23, 2016 at 12:09 pm
COLUMBIA, Md. — March 23, 2016 — Cenveo Publisher Services and Golden Voice English (GVE) Online Education announce the successful partnership in creating an ESL elearning program for students in China. In just six months, Cenveo helped GVE transform the method and delivery of English instruction for Chinese students in grades 1 through 9. Cenveo…
March 22, 2016 at 1:46 pm
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — March 21, 2016 — O'Reilly Media introduces Oriole Online Tutorials, a unique new medium that blends code, data, text, and video into a narrated learning experience with computable content. Oriole Online Tutorials run on HTML pages driven by Jupyter notebooks. "There are people who learn by reading, there are people who learn…
March 21, 2016 at 2:33 pm
AUSTIN, Texas — March 7, 2016 — McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, today announced that in 2015 unit sales of digital platforms and programs exceeded those of print in its U.S. Higher Education Group for the first time. Last year, the company also expanded the number of adaptive offerings for U.S. higher education to…
