textbooks

Troubles at Pearson (textbook business)

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A collection of articles and videos about the ongoing troubles at Pearson

• Article Finally: Pearson Sells Its US K-12 Courseware Business—for $250 Million | EdSurge News
• Article Top Hat Raises $22.5 Million to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill - Bloomberg (2017)
• Article Pearson Explores Sale of Its U.S. K-12 Curriculum Business - Market Brief
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Top Hat - College Textbooks and Ed-Tech Innovation

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a collection of articles and videos looking at how tech companies are mounting a battle vs the traditional college textbook

• Article Higher Education Instructors Get Powerful New Teaching Tools as D2L and Top Hat Join Forces
• Article Top Hat Raises $22.5 Million to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill - Bloomberg (2017)
• Article Top Hat raises $55M Series D for its higher ed learning platform – TechCrunch
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Newsela and K-12 textbooks, news, current events and ed-tech innovation

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A collection of articles about K-12 textbooks and Ed-Tech Innovation

• Article Newsela, the replacement for textbooks, raises $100M and becomes a unicorn – TechCrunch
• Article Newsela raises $50M to expand a content repository for K-12 ,replaces traditional textbooks – TechCrunch
• Article Newsela - Crunchbase
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College Textbooks and EdTech Innovation

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a collection of articles and videos looking at how tech companies are mounting a battle vs the traditional college textbook

• Article The Collapse Of The Textbook Industry Is A Good Thing | Huffington Post
• Article Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill - SPARC
• Article States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks
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Perlego - College Textbooks and EdTech Innovation

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Perlego - College Textbooks and EdTech Innovation

• Article Perlego raises $50M to build out its vision of being the ‘Spotify for textbooks’ – TechCrunch
• Article Perlego raises $4.8M for its ‘Spotify for textbooks’ – TechCrunch

Edtech - Content libraries, educational resources for courses

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Edtech - Content libraries, educational resources for courses

• Article Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform – TechCrunch
• Article Odilo raises $64M as its white-label e-learning library passes 8,500 customers and 170M users – TechCrunch
• Article Perlego raises $50M to build out its vision of being the ‘Spotify for textbooks’ – TechCrunch

Crazy prices of College Textbooks

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A collection of articles and videos about the Crazy prices of College Textbooks

• Article University's $999 online textbook creates confusion and outrage | Inside Higher Ed
• Article Where is the Netflix for College Textbooks? – Higher Education – Medium
• Article The Corporations Devouring American Colleges

Knewton and Troubles at Pearson (textbook business)

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A collection of articles and videos about the ongoing troubles at Pearson

• Article Pearson, an Investor in Knewton, Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products | EdSurge News
• Article Knewton’s New Business Attracts New $25M in Funding. But Some Things Don’t Change. | EdSurge News

Textbooks - finding great textbooks

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a collection of articles about Textbooks - finding great textbooks

• Article The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
• Article Math textbooks (discussion)
• Article Textbook | Mathematics for Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare
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Cengage Learning and College Textbooks, Ed-Tech Innovation

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a collection of articles and videos looking at how tech companies are mounting a battle vs the traditional college textbook

• Article Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides
• Website National Geographic Learning - ELT & PreK-12 Education
• Website English Language Teaching (ELT), Programs & Resources - NGL ELT Catalog - Home
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National Geographic - Educational Resources

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a collection of educational resources from National Geographic

• Article One Strange Rock - Educational Resources | National Geographic Society
• Website Resource Library | National Geographic Education
• Article Strategy Share: Exploring the World Through Documentary Filmmaking – National Geographic Education Blog
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McGraw-Hill and Cengage Learning (merger) - College Textbooks, Ed-Tech Innovation

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a collection of articles and videos looking at how tech companies are mounting a battle vs the traditional college textbook

• Article Cengage, McGraw-Hill Agree to Merge to Become 2nd Biggest US Textbook Publisher | EdSurge News
• Article Cengage/McGraw-Hill Merger Called Off

Pearson - digital textbooks, Edtech

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Pearson - digital textbooks, Edtech

• Article Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’ | 2019 - EdSurge News
• Article Clutch Prep’s journey from startup to exit: What a run it was - Refresh Miami
• Article Finally: Pearson Sells Its US K-12 Courseware Business—for $250 Million | EdSurge News
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Used College Textbooks and Rentals

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Used College Textbooks and Rentals

• Website Valore Books - Used textbooks and rentals
• Website Alibris - used books
• Website Chegg - study

Online textbooks

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Online textbooks

• Article Nearly half of U.S. colleges are using OpenStax textbooks this year
• Article The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I
• Article Free Online Mathematics Textbooks
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