Digital textbooks expose students who aren't reading

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 19:00 in Mathematics & Economics

Teachers in Texas are among those pioneering the use of digital textbooks that send them data - or "engagement indexes" - about how often students open their books, which pages they read, whether they skipped sections, and if they bothered to highlight important passages. Is this the future of textbooks?

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