http://blog.degreego.com News About Online Education, Distance Learning Degrees, Online Colleges and Universities Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:07:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.degreego.com/2009/09/01/e-books-move-through-the-educational-system/ http://blog.degreego.com/2009/09/01/e-books-move-through-the-educational-system/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:44:01 +0000 Kourtnie McKenzie http://blog.degreego.com/?p=251 Heated debates are rampant across the Internet for trying to get a Kindle into the hands of every student--or some other e-book alternative. The discussion about e-books being offered at the college level has also come up. Whether it is at the K-12 public school level, at primary education private schools, or at the higher education level, e-books are taking the educational system by storm and slowly evolving into the new "must have" for the students of this generation. This isn't new. Digital books have been taking over the publishing industry for quite some time, causing debates whether books should be published immediately in e-book format on hardback release date or not (which can lead to a probable decline in hardcover sales for the book stores.) E-books are simply education getting on the electronic book bandwagon. Some schools, like American Sentinel University, were offering free Kindles to students that enrolled before the end of last August. Not surprising, considering the same colleges are going through an e-book reform so that they may offer course material to their students without the back-breaking weight on their shoulders or the extraneous costs of printed reading.]]> http://blog.degreego.com/2009/09/01/e-books-move-through-the-educational-system/feed/ 0