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Key Factors to Consider in Educational Resources Licensing

Kitaboo

With that said, the creators of this online courseware – whether or not they are concerned with retaining the IP rights – must understand how educational resources licensing works. Understanding licensing helps them create online courseware that is capable of delivering the desired educational impact to the masses. What is OER?

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How Can K-12 Publishers Adapt in the Digital Era

Kitaboo

Students can change their learning preferences in a jiffy, based on what suits their learning needs better. Pearson will now offer eBooks at an average cost of $40. And with the planned decrease in printing, it definitely expects to save more by reducing costs for warehousing of large amounts of inventory. for two years.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo

The rate at which the cost of college textbooks has increased is higher than the rate of inflation, surpassing that of the housing market and the cost of health care. Students can access more than 20,000 course materials— courseware, eBooks, online homework and study tools, across more than 70 disciplines and 675 courses.

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Free Learning

Tony Karrer

Big publishers are having problems as the cost of distribution goes towards zero and as that brings along a ton of competition from the low end. But all major publications have limitations in that because of the cost, they have to go after large audiences and they need to stay at higher level topics. Total cost: zero.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Essentially telling the CEO – we’ll produce more and better quality – but it’s not going to cost any more. For a lot of training offerings they will look to keep costs very low – build it fast and inexpensively. So in 2010, you are going to be asked to produce faster, lower cost learning solutions.

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Can US Higher Education Publishers Leverage a Subscription Model

Kitaboo

The overall cost of higher education has been continuously increasing, as is evident by the rise in the textbook prices. This change is the result of overpriced textbooks which drove students towards less expensive sources like eBooks, used textbooks, rental books etc. Why Are Educational Publishers Moving Towards Subscription Model?

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo

Higher education is going through a massive transformation thanks to the adoption of new technologies like mobile learning , gamification and digital courseware. At the other end of the spectrum lies digital courseware, which is built from scratch to suit the learning needs of the students. The Emergence of Digital Courseware.