Kirsten & Chris
In this episode Christopher and I talk about Kno that sued Cengage Learning for pulling its textbooks. We also invited Richard Santalesa of the Information Law Group to talk about the case. Other topics include why Pearson should build a tablet, Samsung’s learning hub, bad math textbooks, iTextbooks being 5x more expensive and more.
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Show Notes
[02:45] Kno sues Cengage Learning for pulling its textbooks
Source: Mashable
[11:10] Interview with Richard Santalesa of Information Law Group
[42:48] Article about the problems with math textbooks
Source: Open Salon
[45:40] Apple’s e-textbooks cost about 5x more than paper version
Source: Education Business Blog
[48:50] Why Pearson should build its on tablet
Source: Disrupt Education
[54:15] Samsung to introduce iTunes U competitor called “learning hub”
Source: The Next Web
[1:00:53] Thank you to our sponsor Languagelab.com
[1:03:00] Clemson University & Dell launch Social Media Listening Center
Source: Dell
[1:09:35] Discussion around the state of online learning
[1:16:50] US Department of Education is reading Twitter
Source: Yahoo
[1:20:30] OLPC Tablet design not only important for developing countries
Source: CNN
[1:25:30] Knewton featured on Forbes
Source: Forbes
[1:27:20] If Chris Dawson founded a startup
Source: ZDNet
