Technology
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 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 11, 2016 at 4:14 pm
The Digital Book World Conference & Expo (DBW) notably shifted its attitude towards major technology platforms this year. The platform giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google were ominously dubbed “The Four Horsemen.” They were referred to as such throughout the conference, and the language used to depict these companies matched the apocalyptic theme. Described as…
March 10, 2016 at 2:51 pm
HOBOKEN, N.J. – March 8, 2016 – Wiley today announces a partnership between online IT learning and certification preparation platform ITPro.TV and the technical literature imprint, Sybex. This venture enables Sybex, one of the world’s oldest and most respected publishers of technology certification texts, to provide more interactive digital options alongside the educational books sold.…
March 4, 2016 at 2:51 pm
Technology that would bring the experience of reading a book into the 21st century—and not by replacing the book with a computer—was patented today by Google, according to filings posted today at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The technology outfits a physical book with numerous page sensors, touch sensors, and motion sensors to understand…
March 2, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Education’s ongoing shift toward digital content and learning experiences has pushed entrenched textbook publishers to try to reinvent themselves as software companies. Boston-based Cengage Learning, one of those industry stalwarts, seems to be making progress on that transformation. CEO Michael Hansen projects that digital products will make up the majority of Cengage’s revenue within two…
February 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm
WASHINGTON — February 22, 2016 — The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the creation of a Center for Innovation & Digital Learning, an initiative designed to promote new ideas in the digital learning space and to support the development of next-generation educational technologies. “Learning materials are no longer solely the printed textbooks of…
February 17, 2016 at 2:22 pm
NEW YORK — February 15, 2016 — Publishing Technology Update: New Digital Directions will be the subject of a Tuesday, March 8, 2016 panel discussion with The Book Industry Guild of New York (BIGNY). Speakers Sue Carlson (VP, Director of Production & Design, W.W. Norton) – went from being a traditional typesetter to re-tool Norton’s…
February 17, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Queen's University researchers have developed a flexible smartphone, the ReFlex, that we imagine is the perfect way virtually thumb through an ebook. The ReFlex features a full-color, high-resolution display and is capable of flexing a significant amount without snapping. The prototype features a 720p LG Display Flexible OLED touchscreen and runs Android 4.4 KitKat software.…
February 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm
The latest Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium (NMC) gives deep insight into how education is being shaped by technology. EdTech spoke with one of the key figures behind the Horizon report — the NMC’s senior director of publications and communications, Samantha Becker — to learn a little more about what goes into these…
