Share|January 17, 2012 Education Insider News Education-Portal.com’s talked a lot about open textbooks, especially those offered by publisher Flat World Knowledge (FWK), whose texts provide free online access as well as low-cost print alternatives. Obviously open texts are great for students (and their wallets), but we wanted to learn about the phenomenon from...

Share|January 13, 2012 MacNewsWorld If that’s the case, Apple’s choosing a good time to focus on that market, according to Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. “Education is moving toward an e-book model, and it’s going to be looking at a number of vendors to provide it with a solution,” he told...

Share|January 10, 2012 Ball State University An e-textbook pilot program will be tested in the coming months as Ball State University examines methods to reduce the cost of attending college and increase learning efficiency. Ball State’s Office of Information Technology has entered into a yearlong pilot agreement with content publisher Flat World Knowledge and...

Share|Guest Blog by Eric Frank, President and Co-Founder, Flat World Knowledge, Inc.  Nothing is certain except death and taxes―and soaring textbooks prices. The first two can’t be avoided, the third can. The cost of higher education has become a cause of increasing concern, even anger, among students, parents, educators and policy makers. On December 5, a...