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Student confidence is growing.
We have been working since 2012 to offer the best STEM courseware. We have provided courseware to 1.7 million students at over 1700 academic institutions, and we’re growing fast. Read about Instructor Success and Student Success.
“My students say the interactive exercises help them visualize program execution. And monitoring students’ progress is an excellent instructor tool.”
David Walter, Virginia State University
“It really breaks down complicated concepts into simple exercises that give you a chance to digest concepts outside of confusing programs.”
Katherine Murphy, Student, Clemson University
“zyBooks gives just the right level of content for students learning to program, packaged in an interactive online experience that also allows for instructor customization. My students love it!”
Dale Reed, University of Chicago, Illinois
“I liked how each chapter explained a topic well using examples and that we were also asked to implement what we had just read (in challenge activities) to ensure that we really understood the concept.”
Laiba Mustafa, Student, University of Guelph
“zyBooks increased my confidence in coding.”
Jose Maya, Student, IUPUI
“The combination of online exercises, lectures, and targeted programming assignments, in addition to the book material, provides an effective, multi-tiered approach.”
Philip Papadopoulos, UC San Diego
More action with less text.
zyBooks strike the perfect balance between text volume and engaged learning, with studies showing that students spend more time learning. Performance has been proven to increase and we have research to show it.
Less text doesn’t mean less learning.
Concise and engaging courseware helps students learn and retain more.
Concise text improves usability by as much as
58%
Volume of text
Time students spent voluntarily learning
zyBooks
Traditional Textbooks
Students voluntarily spend twice as much time with zyBooks compared to traditional textbooks, even though the zyBooks have half as much text.
Link to: Research
Student Performance
increased by
16%
within one lesson using zyBooks.
Link to: Research
Least-prepared students
improved by
64%
with zyBooks.
Link to: Research
Student letter grades
improved up to
2/3
with zyBooks.
Try it for yourself.
zyBooks combine the power of interactive tools, responsive questions, and animations to provide students with a rich learning experience. Try some of our live questions and see for yourself.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
—inspired by a Chinese philosopher, 818 AD
Check one out for free.
The best way to understand the power and flexibility of zyBooks is to get in and work with a free evaluation zyBook. With just your email and a couple clicks, any instructor can start evaluating a zyBook right now. View our entire zyBooks Catalog.
See how our system works.
Driving the engine behind zyBooks are instructors who know that students learn by doing. Watch this quick video to see how zyBooks bridges barriers between instructors and students, re-energizing the classroom and yielding stronger academic results.