Author Archive
Open Textbooks
Flat World Knowledge offers a new approach to textbooks: open them up and bundle them with social learning tools. Founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank, two former textbook industry executives, Flat World Knowledge’s mission statement reads:
We preserve the best of the old – books by leading experts that are rigorously reviewed and developed to [...]
Online textbook rental
“Think NetFlix® for textbooks,” says Christopher Blythe, Founder of Skoobit, a college textbook rental service. According to Skoobit’s website, here’s how it works:
With two million books in its collection, pricing plans begin at $10.99 per book per month for four months. check out Skoobit’s website for more info.
How interesting do you think this service would [...]
Virtual Real-Time Collaboration
As we increasingly need to collaborate with each other across space and time, getting together with peers and colleagues gets more and more complicated. We’ve got a free tool that might make your life a bit easier: Yugma.
Yugma, whose name in Sanskrit means roughly “the state of togetherness”, is a free web conferencing tool that’s [...]
Welcome to the PennEduTech blog!
Welcome to our new community blog site, everyone. Through the month of August we’ll be tweaking the initial design of the blog and talking with folks around campus, encouraging others to submit posts or make comments. Subscribe via email at the top of the page if you don’t want to miss all the excitement.
