{"id":15948,"date":"2011-03-03T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=15948"},"modified":"2011-03-03T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:33:25","slug":"textbook-publisher-announces-%e2%80%98app%e2%80%99-approach-to-learning-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/03\/textbook-publisher-announces-%e2%80%98app%e2%80%99-approach-to-learning-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook publisher announces \u2018app\u2019 approach to learning materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/textbook-publisher-announces-\u2018app\u2019-approach-to-learning-materials\/30090\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Textbook publisher announces \u2018app\u2019 approach to learning materials<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Chronicle by Jeff Young<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Long Beach<\/em>\u2014The phrase \u201cthere\u2019s an app for that\u201d may be coming to textbooks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today a major textbook company, Cengage Learning, announced a new  e-textbook publishing platform that lets professors plug in apps, some  made by other software companies, to add to traditional textbook content  features like tutoring services or the ability to trade margin notes  with other students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The system is called MindTap, and it is scheduled to be announced at  the annual TED conference here. When Chris Vento, Cengage\u2019s executive  vice president for technology and development, explained the system to a  reporter, he felt the need to put the word \u201ctextbook\u201d in air quotes,  since traditional textbook content is a small part of the new product.  These digital textbooks essentially bundle together several products  sold by Cengage and its subsidiaries, including their electronic  test-bank system, called Aplia, as well as videos and other materials  that the company owns the rights to, including the archives of  Newsweek.\u00a0 And MindTap allows professors to customize the presentation  of the material, by adding their own slides, video lectures, articles,  or free online content from elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Textbook publisher announces \u2018app\u2019 approach to learning materials &#8212; from The Chronicle by Jeff Young Long Beach\u2014The phrase \u201cthere\u2019s an app for that\u201d may be coming to textbooks. Today a major textbook company, Cengage Learning, announced a new e-textbook publishing platform that lets professors plug in apps, some made by other software companies, to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304,239,140,195],"tags":[762,719,240,640,748,670],"class_list":["post-15948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-readers","category-new-business-models","category-publishing","category-tools","tag-e-books","tag-e-readers","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-publishing","tag-tablets","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15951,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15948\/revisions\/15951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}