EDUCAUSE and Internet2 E-Text Initiative: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward
Thursday
Nov 8th, 2012
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
Mountain Time
Mile High Ballroom 1D-F
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Session Type: Concurrent Session
Libraries, E-Research, and Digital Content
Theme(s): Partnerships/Collaborations, Leading Edge/Strategic Innovation, Student Success/Learning Outcomes
Libraries, E-Research, and Digital Content
Theme(s): Partnerships/Collaborations, Leading Edge/Strategic Innovation, Student Success/Learning Outcomes
Since last fall, IU, Internet2, and EDUCAUSE have been collaborating on a series of progressively broader pilots involving electronic textbooks. In addition to exploring how e-texts are best used, the multicampus pilots seek particularly to test new models for financing and distributing e-texts, in the hope that the e-text market can operate more efficiently and thereby control costs. Participants in the first two pilots will comment on what they learned from those efforts; Internet2 and EDUCAUSE leaders will then discuss the fall 2012 pilot and one planned for spring 2013.
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etext pilot: engage faculty and students in effort; joint sponsorship with student government can be v helpful #E12_SESS027
RT @andrewbonamici: etext pilot: don't sign long-term agreements w/o engaging collaborative partners; educause #E12_SESS027
Setup the ecosystem to support a pilot (include faculty & students!) before choosing a project #E12_SESS027 #EDU12
etext pilot: don't sign long-term agreements w/o engaging collaborative partners; educause #E12_SESS027
etext pilot: objective:creating more effective market by aggregating demand and need for experimentation #E12_SESS027
etext pilot: layers of [business] margin have to be removed - shorten distance between author and student #E12_SESS027
etext pilot: textbooks not like consumer publishing; students captive mkt; acad freedom of faculty has created closed market #E12_SESS027
Moving #eText FWD will take involvement at the institution level #E12_SESS027 #EDU12
#eText & #eContent study information and results: http://t.co/ph5RVl7D #E12_SESS027 #EDU12
RT @MurZimminy: Data shows that if the #eText was $30 cheaper than paper textbooks, most would prefer to buy it #E12_SESS027 #EDU12