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Ed-Tech Policy Letter to the Editor

Digital Learning Offers Multiple Benefits

June 11, 2012 1 min read
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To the Editor:

Going to interactive digital learning—e-textbooks—makes sense.

It will improve learning and eventually could reduce the cost of education.

It allows learning to take place at any time, in any place, on any path, and at any pace.

Stan Doore

Silver Spring, Md.

A version of this article appeared in the June 13, 2012 edition of Education Week as Digital Learning Offers Multiple Benefits

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