The Dallas Morning News
One of the greatest perks to electronic textbooks is supposed to be a lower purchase price, said Alice Owen, the Irving district's director of technology. But publishers aren't providing cheaper electronic replacements."It's not working exactly as we thought," Owen said. Paper textbooks cost the district $425 annually per student, she said. "A big chunk of textbooks is going to paper and printing that could be savings."
An alternative may be the burgeoning open-source option, which the Legislature also approved for review.
"People have gotten used to getting content given to them in a nice package – 40 minutes this, 40 minutes that," said Neeru Khosla, who runs California-based CK-12, one of the first nonprofits to provide free, customized digital content to schools via the Internet. "Students today have different learning styles. There's no reason why we have to have a fixed image in our mind."
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