About this Playbook
The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators advance theconversation toward building a rich digital learning experience. This Playbook offers information aboutdetermining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms, leveraging home and communitybroadband to extend the digital learning environment, and understanding necessary deviceconsiderations. It also provides lessons learned from school districts that engaged in successfultransitions to digital learning.This Playbook is the output of the Digital Textbook Collaborative, a joint effort of industry stakeholders, schoolofficials and nonprofit leaders to encourage collaboration across theecosystem, accelerate the development of digital textbooksand improve the quality and penetration of digital learningin K-12 public education. The collaborative was convenedby the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S.Department of Education and builds upon the FCC’sNational Broadband Plan and the Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan.
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