Often school district curriculum manuals sat on shelves collecting dust. Renewed from time to time, they kept company with the state curriculum manuals. A form of old accountability and consistency ...

As the founders of two of the world's largest open-source media platforms - Wikipedia and Connexions - we have both been accused of being dreamers. Independently, we became infected with the idea of ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What advice would you offer to textbook publishers? There are some pretty terrible textbooks out there. In fact, I’ve published a popular post titled The Best ...

When Jerry Wood first began teaching 16 years ago, the process by which teachers formulated their curriculums was exclusionary, disjointed and non-collaborative. Every educator’s method was different, ...

This story is part of a series investigating textbook costs at Northwestern. In a world without textbooks, professors would have to create all the material for all their classes. In theory, this is ...

Here’s a statement with which everyone can agree: College instructors cannot assume that students come to their classes in possession of basic knowledge. Now here’s one sure to generate some ...

Though e-textbook sales are increasing, they are still not a replacement for their paper counterparts. This semester, the Penn Bookstore offered 1,779 titles, of which 149 were digital — approximately ...

When Jerry Wood first began teaching 16 years ago, the process by which teachers formulated their curriculums was exclusionary, disjointed and non-collaborative. Every educator’s method was different, ...