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Friday, May 26, 2006
Next-Generation Textbooks: Book Smarts - Matt Villano, Campus Technology
With textbooks and other forms of scholarship moving to electronic formats, schools are turning to a surprising array of innovative tools. That creaky spine. The yellowing paper. Those eternally typeset words. Why do we still love the printed page? In the age of electronic media, some say producing textbooks is a dying art. And it may be true that every day, devices with names such as iPod and eBook threaten to replace the age-old “technology” of the traditional book with a newer, faster, and equally (if not more) portable approach. In many cases, at colleges and universities across the nation, students and teachers alike are embracing these new technologies.
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