Digital books are triggering tectonic shifts in education. One of the most fundamental, yet seemingly invisible, shifts is happening in the back rooms of district offices—not in the classrooms, not among teachers and students, and definitely not in the board rooms of most big-name publishers and textbook companies.
This profound, significant change is happening first in school district business offices, IT departments, and cubicles among staff members who work behind the scenes to acquire materials for today’s students.
What exactly is this shift? It’s a shift in awareness. A very subtle, yet primary, change in perception.
It’s the revelation of the idea that ebooks are not books at all.
That’s right, ebooks are not books.
Second part
There is a second part to the post — Streaming Ebooks: A New Distribution Model for Schools
The eText Conundrum
Interesting blog post about a school trying to use a ebook textbook.
The eText Conundrum
http://geekreflection.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-etext-conundrum-byot-fiasco.html