Online books are seeping into schools. Starting this fall, almost all Fairfax middle and high school students are using online textbooks in social studies.

Used textbooks typically cost about 75% less than retail, according to NACS. They made up about 30% of all textbook sales in college stores in the 2011-12 school year, totaling about $1.51 billion ...

First came free online courses. Now come — with a few conditions — free online textbooks. Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced ...

Online textbooks combine the features of books, search engines, and course-management software like Blackboard and WebCT. Some online books are delivered as documents that users download to their ...

When California math and science teachers return to their classrooms this month, they'll have 10 free online textbooks at their fingertips to help them teach everything from calculus to chemistry ...

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 2/4/2015, pg. A4) A story about free online educational resources displacing textbooks incorrectly reported the location of Design Tech High charter school.The ...

Mesa's online books, Earth & Space Science and Biology, are part of a new educational trend called "open textbooks." Bycott was part of a team of Mesa teachers whose members earned stipends last ...

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 27, 2009— -- In colleges across the country online textbooks are inching their way to the top of the class, while paper and ink textbooks are quickly becoming "old school ...

Some online courses are going textbook-free. Certain professors may not assign any textbooks and will simply have students download a series of journal articles and other reading materials at no cost.

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