New Trends in Educational Publishing
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] The educational publishing industry has changed to be more accommodating to the digital era, introducing new elements and creating the market for it long before the pandemic. As the publishers explore in depth on how to tap more into the benefits of modern technologies, the consumers are already prepared. […]
Why Education Publishers Must Shift Toward ePublishing to Cope with the Emerging Trends of eLearning
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] It took a cataclysmic COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant “stay-at-home” and social distancing behaviors to propel eLearning to the forefront of education and training in 2020, 2021, and arguably, well into the future. The pandemic era, if one may call it that, “has allowed for more enthusiastic adoption, advances […]
The Growing Need for Designing and Developing Educational Content for Children with Special Needs
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] Education publishing plays a critical role in any society in establishing high educational standards and delivering effective learning to students across the board. It cannot be overemphasized how educational publishers have been central to creating content that is designed for all children including the ones in need of special […]
Scholarly Publishing and the New Wave of Alternative Content Formats
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] Scholarly publishing immediately calls to mind the predominantly print- and paper-based PDFs that have been the mainstay of scientific and scholarly publications for many decades. Initially conceived as the standard format for delivering final page layouts for print, PDFs metamorphosed into the format of choice for online journals. While […]
The Rising Impact of OER and the Role of Educational Publishers
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] The pandemic has pushed education to people’s homes, and only after this, have we realized how limited the resources are for learning online. With libraries closed, there is no way to read books or take notes without spending money. With scholarly publishing making a shift to open access, it […]
Blended Learning in the New Normal
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] Blended learning assumed status as a learning option with the first generation of web-based instruction, beginning in 1998, when computers started becoming a household item. What is blended learning? Wiki defines it as an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with traditional […]
COVID-19 and Education Publishing: Bridging the Gap in the Era of Contactless Classrooms and Social Distancing
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] No other sector perhaps has been as comprehensively and completely transformed as the education sector in this pandemic-hit world. While e-content, whether in the form of eBooks or e-learning, has been around for decades, this format has only been supplementary to contact learning and more prevalent and popular in […]
Mobile App-Based Education
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] Educational publishing has stayed monotonous for many decades until recent trends included the use of mobile applications and tools, which changed the game. These apps benefited teachers and students alike by making education more practical than ever. With today’s technology, educational content has become more fluid, flexible, and fun. […]
AI in Education Today
[Approximate Reading Time : 4 mins] Artificial intelligence (AI) was applied to education as early as the 1980s. Only now do we have the technology to support AI in the creation of new tools to assist teachers and students alike. AI is seeping into education systems worldwide at a rapid rate, thus pushing the learning […]
Growing Impetus On Digital Accessibility For Higher Education
Education publishers and educators must utilize a multi-pronged strategy to build a resilient, adaptive, and all-inclusive education system by harnessing and using technology to create accessible content for remote learning. COVID-19 has transformed the old chalk–talk teaching model. All the education stakeholders are grappling with methods to augment and foster better learning experiences for all […]