Textbooks are making the leap from paper to the Web and mobile apps. So, with school just around the corner, let’s take a look at some of the latest tools to help you get the most out of your education.
The companies in this round-up are using modern technology to help today’s students study more efficiently, with the added bonus of lightening their backpacks and keeping their wallets a bit heavier. Below are our top five digital education tools for the back to school season.
Kno: Digital textbooks The Kno textbook app, which is available on the iPad, Web and Facebook, has a catalog of over 100,000 books you can buy or rent, making it easy to find your syllabus’s requirements. Kno makes each textbook page look exactly the same as it would in the paper book. This makes it easy for students to find what specific section a professor is referencing. According to Kno co-founder and chief technology officer Babur Habib, Kno’s aim is to, “bring students in a comfortable fashion from their analogue, physical textbook experience to the digital world.”
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Author: Meghan Kelly
