TOKYO -- Japan's Diet enacted legislation on June 10 to formally introduce digital textbooks, with the education ministry ...

Japanese parliament on Wednesday enacted a revised law to introduce digital textbooks as formal teaching materials at schools ...

Under the new legal framework, education boards will decide which type of textbooks schools under their jurisdiction should ...

Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it ...

Whether children are currently going to school in person, learning remotely or doing a mix of both, digital tools and texts are becoming much more commonplace for K-12 education during the COVID-19 ...

Japan is joining the shift to electronic textbooks, approving digital technology-based materials as official school textbooks ...

Plenty of folks see the move to digital textbooks as "inevitable." After all, more and more people are buying e-books and e-readers. Yet college students in particular continue to turn up their noses ...

Is there a college student — or parent — who has not winced at the price of a textbook? Today's digital textbooks are no different. Most now require an access code for a fee or are tied to automatic ...

Digital textbooks have gotten a lot of ink in recent months. In January, Apple attracted attention when it announced its foray into the field with the iBook, a multimedia-rich textbook for the iPad ...

I read with interest Gilbert T. Sewall’s Commentary “Digital Textbooks: They’re Coming—But Will They Be Better?” in your April 7, 2010, issue, but was dismayed to see that the director of the American ...

The education ministry will introduce digital English textbooks at elementary and junior high schools in Japan from the 2024 school year. Student will use digital textbooks via computers and tablets, ...