Lisa Spiro
Director of NITLE Labs, author of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities blog, and an editor of the Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki.
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Apple Textbooks - Not Disruptive - 1 views
Apple drops new iPad apps for digital textbook creation and distribution | Inside Highe... - 0 views
Apple's New Textbook Platform: Which Way Forward? | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Universities look to get discounts on e-textbooks for students | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"Internet2, a consortium of 221 colleges and universities, which last year brokered landmark deals with Box.com and Hewlett-Packard that gave its members discounts on cloud computing services, announced today that it had entered into a contract with McGraw-Hill, a major textbook publisher, aimed at creating similar discounts for students on digital course materials."
Recalibrating Expectations for eTexts | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"This past fall fully 90 percent percent of the CIOs who participated in the annual Campus Computing Survey agreed that "eBook content will be an important source for instructional resources in five years," up from 76 percent in fall 2009. Campus IT leaders were also bullish, if slightly less so, on the rising role of eReaders as a "platform for instructional content" (82 percent agreed in fall 2011, compared to 66 percent in 2009)."
Daytona State reins in its push toward e-textbooks | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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"Daytona State has not abandoned its e-textbook initiative, but it has tempered its approach. And while Spiwak's departure may have weakened the college's enthusiasm for the transition to digital, a recently completed report on a yearlong pilot at Daytona State, comparing the satisfaction and success of students using all electronic texts with students using all print, has also complicated the picture."
Academic Technology in Higher Education » Blog Archive » A Call to Action: A ... - 0 views
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"This is an open proposal to the CUNY community. Take action to drastically reduce the cost of textbooks and create a CUNY-wide eBook program. "
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