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Market Wired: Elsevier and zyBooks Bring Computer Organization and Design Textbook Into the Digital Age

April 5, 2016

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Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, and zyBooks, an online interactive textbook provider, today announced the launch of a web-based interactive version of the market-leading textbook Computer Organization and Design, Fifth Edition (David A. Patterson & John L. Hennessy, 2013).

HIGHER EDUCATION: UCR behind next-gen ‘books’

February 19, 2016
by The Press Enterprise Mark Muckenfuss

This week, zyBooks, a Los Gatos-based company co-founded by UCR professor Frank Vahid, received a $4 million infusion of cash from a combination of sources. Bialla Venture Partners in Sausalito put down $2 million. The rest came from other investors and a grant from the National Science Foundation.

zyBooks Secures $4 Million in Funding to Take College Textbooks into the Interactive Age

February 10, 2016
by zyBooks Press Release

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 10, 2016 – zyBooks (www.zybooks.com), the leading provider of interactive digital learning products for the rapidly growing higher education STEM (Science, Technology Engineering & Math) market, announced a $4 million investment round led by Bialla Venture Partners, LLC. In conjunction with the funding, managing member of Bialla Venture Partners, David Uri, will join the company’s Board of Directors.

zyBooks Touts ‘Less Text, More Action’

November 25, 2015
by UCI Courtney Hamilton

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, animations are worth 5,000—at least, that’s one of the principles underlying interactive online textbook replacements zyBooks. Another principle: Students should interact and engage with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning as if they’re in dialogue with their education.

Better Learning Online

November 12, 2015
by UCR Better Learning Online

To help students succeed in college STEM courses, UC Riverside computer scientist Frank Vahid created zyBooks — interactive STEM learning material native for the web.

Reimagined Textbooks Adapt to Student Learning

October 14, 2015
by UA News Emily Litvack , University Relations

One UA associate professor has put a modern spin on an old classic — the textbook — by using zyBooks in his electrical and computer engineering courses.

Web Platform Seeks to Give Students an Alternative to the ‘Wall of Text’

July 14, 2015
by The Chronicle of Higher Education Meg Bernhard

It’s difficult to keep students engaged — and awake — when assigning them readings from long and often dull textbooks. Two researchers wanted to change that.

Changing How Students Learn

April 13, 2015
by UCR Sean Nealon

Company focused on building interactive textbooks is already reaching more than 50,000 students at 200 universities and colleges

FROM MIND TO MARKET: zyBooks

March 14, 2015
by UCR Koren Wetmore

When Professor Frank Vahid created textbooks for online use, he didn’t just transfer text into pixels. He created a new way of learning.

Let’s breathe interactive life into the common textbook

April 30, 2013
by Pando Smita Bakshi

Students learn in a variety of ways — they listen, read, create, speak, share, engage, ask, get assessed, receive feedback, get mentored, and eventually maybe become a mentor themselves. Some need to read less and listen more, others need to “do” first then read. Some need to ask, others need to share, others need to drill. The permutations are endless.

“Learning by Doing” with the Modern Textbook

March 14, 2013
by Texas Educational Review Smita Bakshi

I clearly recollect my Circuits and Systems class in a freshman class of 45 students, where every 3^rd period was a time for the professor to walk amongst us as we solved problems and raised our hands for help. Learning happens by doing, and we had an opportunity to do just that with the help of our professor.

Zyante – An Innovative Alternative to Textbooks

September 14, 2012
by The Wheel Mary Stewart

Former UC Davis assistant professor Smita Bakshi is now the owner of Zyante, a company that creates interactive, online resources intended to replace textbooks.

On the Web

Market Wired: Elsevier and zyBooks Bring Computer Organization and Design Textbook Into the Digital Age

HIGHER EDUCATION: UCR behind next-gen ‘books’

zyBooks Secures $4 Million in Funding to Take College Textbooks into the Interactive Age

zyBooks Touts ‘Less Text, More Action’

Better Learning Online

Reimagined Textbooks Adapt to Student Learning

Web Platform Seeks to Give Students an Alternative to the ‘Wall of Text’

Changing How Students Learn

FROM MIND TO MARKET: zyBooks

Let’s breathe interactive life into the common textbook

“Learning by Doing” with the Modern Textbook

Zyante – An Innovative Alternative to Textbooks

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