[Asis-l] Electronic Texts Pilot for Fall 2012: Prospectus and Invitation

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

*** Apologies for Receipt of Duplicate Postings ***

Colleagues/

WoW !

/Gerry 

Internet2 and EDUCAUSE invite your institution to participate in a Fall 2012 electronic-textbook pilot. The pilot’s goal is to explore new business models, terms, and conditions that will enable simpler, more efficient access to digital educational materials (etexts) at your institution. Institutions that participate in the pilot will be helping higher education collectively to demonstrate new etexts models. These seek to provide students substantial savings and to provide publishers greater efficiency and reasonable returns on their textbook investments. The pilot centers on delivering etexts to students and faculty via an institutional site license, rather than through individual purchases by students.

If your institution is interested in joining the pilot, you must let us know by April 7, 2012; your expression of interest must be confirmed by a signed Memorandum of Intent by April 15. The pilot will include no more than 50 institutions.

The pilot involves three components: etexts from major textbook publishers (we expect two or three to participate in due course), a multi-platform e-reader that students and faculty use to access etexts (this will be provided by Courseload), and institutions that agree to identify faculty and course sections interested in using etexts. 

[more]

Source and Links Available Via 

[ http://bit.ly/GUDi31 ]

Also of possible interest 

Digital Textbooks: A Perfect Storm For Higher Learning

Includes links to Indiana eTextbook initiatives (among others)

[ http://bit.ly/xXucIG ]

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

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