[Asis-l] Digital Textbook Resources

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

*** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Posting ***

Colleagues/

If you’ve not experienced the ‘Resources'  in my recent PPT _Digital Textbooks : A Perfect Storm for Higher Learning_  I believe that you will find them educational / informative / inspirational > 

1 > _DT > Digital Textbooks_

DT Is Devoted To Documenting Significant Initiatives That Relate To Any And All Aspects Of Digital Textbooks, Most Notably Their Use In Higher Education

 http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/ 

2> HighEd Tech Video >   From Dewey to Digital: Are e-books, Tablets and Digital Content Coming of Age?

- James P. Danky, Future of Print Project, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sean Devine, CEO, Coursesmart
- Matt MacInnis, Founder & CEO, Inkling
- Vineet Madan, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, McGraw-Hill Higher Education 
- Osman Rashid, Co-Founder & CEO, Kno

3> Next is Now > The Switch to Digital Learning: How We Will Teach and How They Will Learn 

4> The Future of Learning Content:  Digital Textbooks, Open Content, Apple and Beyond

5> eTexts Constituent Group 

Also > The University of Michigan Library video 

All are available via _Digital Textbooks: A Perfect Storm For Higher Learning_

http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/digital-textbooks-perfect-storm-for.html 

Regards, 

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University 
152 Parks Library 
Ames IA 50011

http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/