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Wilbert Kraan

eBooks: The Learning Platform of the Future?

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Overview of the session

The development of ebooks

Gathering requirements on educational ebooks

Prioritising requirements on ebooks

EDUPUB and IMS Colin Smythe

Break

Making interactive ebooks interoperable and robust, Wilbert Kraan

Authoring, publishing and distributing ebooks in academia, Mick Chesterman

Can an ebook be the learning platform of the future, and should we want it to?

eBook adoption

Source: Booktrust Reading Habits Survey 2013

Nielsen: 1 in 4 books in the UK

eBooks in F/HE

Lower adoption in academe?Nielsen, March 2014:1 in 4 of all books sold to consumers are ebooks

40% of adult fiction is an ebook

Graphics support

Interactivity support

Interoperability

Rights management

Role of libraries

Self publishing

Recent e-(text)book developments

Shift from e-readers to tablets (but 60% of ebooks are still bought for dedicated readers)

Editability

Analytics

VLE integration

Integrated comprehension tests

Some resources

Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of Ebooks in Education Jisc TechWatch report

The Challenge of ebooks in Academic Institutions Jisc project

Requirements on e-textbooks

What does an e-texbook need to do over and above an ebook?CharacteristicsOnline testing

Offline testing

'unlimited' questions

Reporting of results

Discussion (class / world)

Media

Citations / quotes

Gesture / interaction

Highlighting text, asking for clarification

CreationMaking your own

Creating a textbook as a learning experience / growing book

ConsumptionGetting your own book published

Convenient (distribution, transport)

(Accessible/Individualisation)

CurationCheaper

Longevity / Interoperability

Integral / standalone

Backward compatibility with EPUB2

Issues and obstacles to wider adoption

Licence

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