McGraw-Hill Education Goes Digital With Its New E-textbooks

McGraw-Hill Higher Education just launched a new line of e-textbooks, called McGraw-Hill Connect, for students. President of McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Edward H. Stanford, said that the new e-textbooks were developed based on an "ethnographic investigation of student study habits." According to Stanford, students tend to jump around in the text while reading or studying. These new e-textbooks should make jumping around in the text easier for students and produce better grades as a result.

McGraw-Hill Connect includes about 100 titles in 18 disciplines, and innovative features such as note sharing, which allows students to e-mail parts of the book to their friends with their notes attached, and "lecture capture," which allows teachers to download and share recorded lectures; there is even a feature that grades a student's work automatically!

Check out the article, "New E-textbooks Do More Than Inform: They'll Even Grade You," by Jeffrey R. Young from The Chronicle of Higher Education at http://chronicle.com/article/New-E-Textbooks-Do-More-Than/48324/.