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• Position: Education - CourseSmart books - Brief article

Are you keeping up with your homework? You may soon have a harder time faking it, thanks to a new generation of digital textbooks. CourseSmart books track things like how long an e-book has been on, how much time is spent on each page, and whether the student is taking notes and highlighting. Teachers then get an "engagement index" score for each student, which can help them identify anyone who may be falling behind. Nearly 4 million students and teachers have begun testing the smart books at nine colleges in states like Texas, South Carolina...