Ebooks have been around since late 70s with Project Gutenberg, and became a commercially available format as early as the internet enabled monetary exchanges in the 90s. In 1998, US libraries were already distributing free ebooks through their websites and technologies from companies like OverDrive have been supporting that effort since the late 80s. Fast forward to the 2000s, Amazon and Apple brought digital to the masses with simpler ereaders and smarter phones. Yet, this move has been really slow. I mean it isn’t a Kodak moment:
Interesting post, the UK-based Seneca Learning is a digital textbook provider/revision support tool that uses spaced repetition and other learning techniques to demonstrable effect as shown in the RCT they undertook - seems to be taking off too, with over 6-million learners using it in the UK now.
Interesting post, the UK-based Seneca Learning is a digital textbook provider/revision support tool that uses spaced repetition and other learning techniques to demonstrable effect as shown in the RCT they undertook - seems to be taking off too, with over 6-million learners using it in the UK now.