e-books

Indiana U. helps shape economic terms of eText transition [Roscorla]

On 10/06/2011, in cost of getting a degree, digital learning, digital textbooks, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education technology, new business models, publishing, by Daniel Christian

Indiana U. helps shape economic terms of eText transition — from convergemag.com by Tanya Roscorla

Excerpts:

As course material shifts from print to digital, Indiana University advocates on behalf of students for lower prices, more choices and common software platforms.

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Based on feedback from students and faculty, Courseload rewrote the platform in HTML5 this summer.

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When the university asked students why they liked e-textbooks better, 69 percent cited instructor annotations, followed closely by sustainability, cost, weight of books and student annotations.

Tagged with: costs • digital learning • e-books • e-readers • higher education • HTML 5 • new business models • new publishing models • tablets

Presentations from the Digital Book 2011 Conference [idpf.org]

On 10/04/2011, in 21st century, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, publishing, strategy, textbooks, trends, by Daniel Christian

Presentations from the Digital Book 2011 Conference — from idpf.org with a special thanks going out to Mr. Steven Chevalia — who had pointed me to a great presentation by Liisa McCloy-Kelley:

Learning to Juggle and Picking the Right Balls
(AKA adapting organizations for the future of digital publishing)

Liisa McCloy-Kelley
VP, Director of eBook Production Strategy & Operations, Random House, Inc

Liisa McCloy-Kelley is VP, Director of eBook Production Strategy & Operations at Random House, Inc. where she has been an eyewitness to an evolution in the way that books are produced, marketed and sold for more than 20 years. She currently leads the team responsible for eBook development and production and keeps Random House on a focused strategic path for digital product development. She has spoken at a variety of conferences and has taught at Wellesley, NYU and Yale. As a digital book evangelist, she has given up reading in print form to become an expert in the variety of digital reading systems and the ways they can present content.

Example slide:

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Indiana University tries to drive down textbook costs with eBooks [Carter]

On 09/13/2011, in budgets, cost of getting a degree, digital textbooks, e-books, higher education, student-related, textbooks, by Daniel Christian

Indiana University tries to drive down textbook costs with eBooks — from eCampusNews.com by Dennis Carter
Online textbooks initiative comes as student activists clamor for more affordable options nationwide

Tagged with: budgetary • cost of getting an education • digital textbooks • e-books • higher education • student-related • textbooks

Glo Bible — one of the top coolest book apps this fall

On 09/07/2011, in 21st century, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, faith, interactivity, relationships, religion, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • digital audio • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital video • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • e-readers • faith-wisdom • global • interactivity • multimedia • relationships • religion • society

Reflections on “Video: Hands-on with Inkling 2.0, the iPad textbook” [Taylor]

On 08/29/2011, in digital learning, digital textbooks, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, multi-touch, multimedia, new business models, publishing, tablets, tools, trends, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Video: Hands-on with Inkling 2.0, the iPad textbook — from gigaom.com by Colleen Taylor; my thanks go out to Mr. Johnny Ansari for this resource

A screenshot from GigaOM’s video demo of Inkling 2.0

Excerpt:

This week, digital publishing startup Inkling debuted the 2.0 version of its software, which provides interactive, digital versions of college textbooks for the iPad.

The San Francisco-based startup is just down the street from GigaOM’s office, so I headed on over to Inkling headquarters on Thursday to get an in-person demo from the company’s Founder and CEO Matt MacInnis. In short: It’s so awesome it actually makes me want to buy college textbooks again, just to play with the app some more.

From DSC:
Why can’t these materials from publishers come right into an 8′ x 6′ “interactive whiteboard” (for lack of a better term) so that the professor can annotate/manipulate them in front of the classroom?

See:

and here

Tagged with: digital learning • digital textbooks • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • e-readers • innovation • iPad • multi-touch • multimedia • new publishing models • publishing • tools • vendors

From Daniel Christian: Fasten your seatbelts! An accelerated ride through some ed-tech landscapes.

On 08/25/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, adjunct faculty, analytics, art, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, attention, Augmented Reality (AR), blogs / blogging / vlogging, change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, colleges, communities of practice, community colleges, computer science, convergence, creativity, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, drama/theater, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), economics, education, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, expectations, faculty/staff, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, intelligent tutoring, internet, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning theories, liberal arts, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, memory, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, music, Near Field Communication (NFC), New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new media literacies, online learning, online media, pace of change, passions, pedagogy, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, publishing, reading, reinvent, robotics, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, society, staying relevant, storytelling, strategy, streams of content, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, surviving, tablets, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, technology (general), telepresence, television, textbooks, tools, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, United States, universities, videoconferencing, virtual K-12 schools, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, visualizing information, web-based collaboration, writing, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Immediately below is a presentation that I did for the Title II Conference at Calvin College back on August 11, 2011
It is aimed at K-12 audiences.

From DSC:
Immediately below is a presentation that I did today for the Calvin College Fall 2011 Conference.
It is aimed at higher education audiences.

Note from DSC:

There is a great deal of overlap here, as many of the same technologies are (or will be) hitting the K-12 and higher ed spaces at the same time. However, there are some differences in the two presentations and what I stressed depended upon my audience.

Pending time, I may put some audio to accompany these presentations so that folks can hear a bit more about what I was trying to relay within these two presentations.

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A very interesting concept! Game-like reading on tablet devices [Walrus]

On 08/22/2011, in cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), educational games / serious games, publishing, reading, trends, by Daniel Christian

A very interesting concept — game-like reading on tablet devices — from Walrus Epub:
Walrus Epub Demo#3 – Kadath— my thanks to Mr. Steven Chevalia for this resource

Excerpt:

The new video demo made by the Walrus studio, involving ePub3 with a huge use of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.

From DSC:
A good example of how books are moving to ebooks which are then moving to applications.

Tagged with: cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • e-readers • educational gaming • HTML 5 • new publishing models • programming • publishing • reading • trends

Khan Academy integrates with digital textbooks [Kessler]

On 08/22/2011, in digital textbooks, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), new business models, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, publishing, by Daniel Christian

Khan Academy integrates with digital textbooks — from Mashable.com by Sarah Kessler

Excerpt:

E-textbook maker Kno announced Monday that it will integrate thousands of tutorial videos from Khan Academy into its books.

Also see:

Tagged with: digital textbooks • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • new publishing models • online learning • online media • open • publishing

Tagged with: e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • new publishing models • publishing

The changing landscape for e-textbooks and LMS platforms in higher education [Reynolds]

On 08/07/2011, in change, CMS/LMS, digital textbooks, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), higher education, new media literacies, open courseware and systems, publishing, trends, by Daniel Christian

The changing landscape for e-textbooks and LMS platforms in higher education — from blog.xplana.com by Rob Reynolds

Also see:

Emerging Trends in LMS / Ed Tech Market — from Michael Feldstein

Tagged with: Blackboard • change • CMS/LMS • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • higher education • Moodle • open • publishing • trends • vendors

Items on Connected/Smart TV’s from nyxiotechnologies.com

On 07/26/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, flipping -- inverted learning, future, future of higher education, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, internet, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, media/film, mirroring and/or multiple devices, multi-touch, multimedia, music, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, play, social learning / networks, social media, storytelling, streams of content, technologies for your home, technology (general), telecommunications, telepresence, television, training / L&D, transmedia, trends, user experience (UX), videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Intel predicts Smart TV is the device of the future — from nyxiotechnologies.com’s blog
Chipmaker Intel believes that the Smart TV is the electronic device of the future, in the living room anyway.

Excerpt:

The Smart TV is already upon us, in its various forms from various manufacturers. It has arrived with 3D capabilities, web browsing and social networking and applications. Currently Samsung and LG seem to be two of the big players pushing the Smart TV to consumers.

Also see:

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Teaching secrets: Teaching students how to learn [George]

On 07/20/2011, in digital textbooks, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, higher education, innovation, K-12 related, learning, learning theories, memory, metacognition / metacognitive skills, publishing, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, teachers, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

Teaching secrets: Teaching students how to learn — from Edweek.org by Cossondra George

Excerpt:

Awareness of common pitfalls and effective strategies can support your efforts to help students “learn to learn” throughout the school year…

From DSC:
I sure wish instructional designers, subject matter experts, professors and teachers could annotate their “books” to give concrete, practical ideas and strategies that would help students to better study, understand, and remember the relevant materials. My early take on this might be achieved via a multi-layered, digital textbook approach that would hopefully address metacognition and help students learn how to learn:

Tagged with: e-books • e-readers • higher education • innovation • K-12 • learning • learning and study strategies • learning theories • memory • metacognition • new publishing models • publishing • student teaching/teacher education • tablets • teachers • teaching & learning

What the Kindle textbook rental program portends for higher education [Reynolds]

On 07/20/2011, in changing business models, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, future, higher education, new business models, publishing, tablets, textbooks, trends, vendors, by Daniel Christian

What the Kindle textbook rental program portends for higher education — from xplana.com by Rob Reynolds

Excerpt:

Almost as soon as the press release hit the Internet yesterday, I began fielding questions about Amazon’s new Kindle textbook rental program. What does this mean for publishers? How will this affect textbook prices? What impact will it have on institutions and their students?

While the general answer to all of these questions is “We don’t know yet,” there are a number of projections I think we can make based on current market trends. Before launching into those projections, however, let’s take a quick look at what the Kindle textbook rental program actually offers.

Tagged with: digital learning • digital textbooks • disruption • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • e-readers • future • higher education • new business models in he • new publishing models • publishing • tablets • textbooks • trends • vendors

Borders forced to liquidate, close all stores [Spector & Trachtenberg]

On 07/19/2011, in business, change, changing business models, dangers of the status quo, disruption, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, internet, publishing, by Daniel Christian