The textbooks can toggle between languages so students who aren't native speakers can check their understanding. Another advantage: the digital books' cost. Discovery's lessons — branded 'Techbooks' ...

In short, an e-reader is best suited for reading books with minimal annotation or note-taking. An e-ink notepad is best for taking notes or reading PDFs, textbooks, and documents. A tablet, like an ...

Textbooks are the bane of every college kid’s existence: They’re expensive, heavy, half the time you end up using them once, your professors’ insist on going off book, and when all’s said and done and ...

Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks ...

Nonprofits and a Christian university are bringing new technology to the country’s remotest areas. Twelve-year-old Rita Lesina treks more than 1.5 miles every morning over a dusty, rugged road in ...

WASHINGTON – Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today outlined a future of computing akin to a Whole Earth Catalog for technology. The computing systems of the future will be more natural, responsive ...

The education ministry will introduce digital English textbooks at elementary and junior high schools in Japan from the 2024 school year.

In South Korea, the days of students lumbering around with backpacks full of books could soon be a thing of the past. A new government initiative aims to replace all physical textbooks with eBooks ...